Hi Nikhil, I'll strongly suggest that we stay on GTFS as a standard.
There are many applications to work with it, since it's an open standard. I'm in pune and i can help you with this. Regards, Dev On 04-Jul-2015 10:50 am, "Nikhil VJ" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Friends, > > Some of you whom I've put in Bcc had signed up on the Datameet Pune > interest form. While Craig is working on how to organize meetups > (found a venue, planning dates etc), I'd like to share a collaborative > task with you. > > Here's something that some volunteer groups (ImproveMyCity, Pravasi > Manch, Pimpri-Chinchwad Citizens Forum) are upto. IMC is building a > website for PMPML (Pune's bus system), and we're helping PMPML put the > bus routes info in a standardized common structure that can then be > used for properly informing the public. We've had many roadblocks > previously with this process and are now much wiser off it. > > There's an easy but repetitive task that we need to hammer out : we > have a standardized list of bus stops in English with unique code and > lat-long, which was formed and freely shared by an org called ITDP. > And we have a separate longer list of bus stop names in Marathi which > we'd gotten from an earlier unorganized dataset. We need to fill in > the Marathi counterparts of the English stop names. > > I've put this all on this google spreadsheet: > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ppFJeb7Dnj6-1yvniH2Q6exQFzK6fM0wsZNn4XZIvkI/edit?usp=sharing > > There are just under 1800 stops to bilingual-ize this way. > > So what you have to do: > Play match-the-following, or type some Marathi words in. Simple! > Please write back to me if you're interested in doing a set of rows > for half an hour or so today, and I will add you to the doc as an > editor. > > Target completion time: Sunday 5th July EOD. But if you can give some > time today before 4pm that would be great, as we're meeting PMPML's > CMD at that time to discuss on all this. He's recently taken charge > and is very passionate about making all the information transparent > and accessible to the public. > > -------------------------------------------- > > Why this is important : > If you see the routes sheets in the same google spreadsheet, we're > going to populate it with existing route info prepared by ITDP (a few > years old), and have PMPML staff edit and update the route information > using this core list of bus stops. When adding a new stop in a route, > it's got to be linked to other stop info like stopcode, lat-long. > Building up this way, with properly cross-linked information instead > of arbitrary entries, will then enable all the information management > features one needs from a modern public transport service. > > Some background: > These exercises had been done in the past, but the technologies used, > the core data like this, etc wasn't properly shared or passed on, and > PMPML themselves weren't involved and so never had the standardized > stuff in their systems. A GTFS (that google maps uses) feed was > created, but that's basically not human-manageable.. the main datafile > is around 6 lakh lines long. > > So now we want to do things differently. A very important component > here is OPEN data, and transparency at the input end. This data format > that we've commonly agreed upon is both human and machine readable, > and once set up, will be a lot easier to maintain. PMPML will have > constant direct access to the system and they will be able to edit the > data themselves as soon as there are changes from their end. > > It would be great to have a full-on database-powered system.. I am > clueless on that but knew a few excel hacks so am doing it this way. > If YOU have the skills to drum something up then welcome aboard! > > ------------------------------- > > Coming back, breaking it down to simple parts : The task for right now > is just to fill Marathi names for each bus stop. > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ppFJeb7Dnj6-1yvniH2Q6exQFzK6fM0wsZNn4XZIvkI/edit?usp=sharing > > -- > -- > Cheers, > Nikhil > +91-966-583-1250 > Pune, India > Self-designed learner at Swaraj University < > http://www.swarajuniversity.org> > http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
