at bottom :- On 7/7/15, Nikhil VJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nisha, Srinivas, > > Thanks.. the idea started out with engaging a college's whole computer > engineering department or a prof and his/her students for a full-fledged > internship/mou project that extends over at least 3 months. And then I > thought it would be better to throw the challenge out in the open instead > of locking-in dependency... if the bus authority is the one issuing the > challenge then it'll probably carry through and get taken up seriously. > Professors usually complain about not having meaty projects for their > students' internships. So let's meet that demand. > > So right now this is how I envision a possible contest timeline (I'm > thinking to much ahead but here it is anyway): > 1. Announcement with open sharing of data and design requirements (so > really kicking it off with all resources made available) > 2. Taking in registrations from teams > 3. Forming an online community of all participating teams and airing out > all doubts, clarifications etc there > 4. Setting periodic "checkpoints" of select features that each team must > achieve and showcase or else be dropped from the competition. (like > achieving map display, achieving stops-editing, on-map editing, GTFS > conversion, etc) > 5. Final lap of 1 month to get everything together, and have to put up > fully functional prototype loaded with data for public review by a set > deadline. > 6. Some surprises that I don't want to reveal right now, they'll work only > if kept secret. > > And here's how I'm thinking of bringing the aspects of collaboration in : > Teams can contact each other and merge into one, with no roll-back > possibility. This will be easily done IF we haven't kept any prize money > that needs to be split. This could lead to, say, a joint solution created > by 2 or 3 colleges working together. > > I don't care if it doesn't work out at the end.. something of this sort > will produce something or the other that's useful. After all, when you want > to hit a target, you need to fire a few degrees upward to account for > gravity. > > What I've visualized in the ppt is basically a visualization of the needs > that the folks at PMPML have been telling us again and again over the last > few months. 2 weeks back the newly appointed CMD also told us that they > desperately need this kind of thing, and so I decided to flesh out the > requirements so we have something detailed to go with. > > This would happen at the output end of an ongoing effort to (finally!) > standardize the data that they have, bringing it to a format that is both > human and machine compatible (and PMPML-approved.. their consent and > commitment is critical). So it's taking shape here, please see the > "swargate" sheet: > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ppFJeb7Dnj6-1yvniH2Q6exQFzK6fM0wsZNn4XZIvkI > > Base data prepared by an org named ITDP, this data is a few years old but > is more recent that the GTFS file we have, and has had ground-truthing and > stops rationalization done. So the plan is to populate this, and then guide > the PMPML's transport managers through editing and updating it, and > simultaneously we might launch the contest. > > > > -- > Cheers, > Nikhil > +91-966-583-1250 > Pune, India > Self-designed learner at Swaraj University > <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> > http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.in
Hi all, Was talking to some people and came up with few links which could be useful :- https://mapzen.com/projects/valhalla https://github.com/valhalla https://transit.land/ https://github.com/transitland http://transit.geotrellis.com/#!/travelshed http://transit.geotrellis.com/travelshed.html https://github.com/geotrellis/geotrellis-transit If anything, it tells that there are more than a few options besides GFTS. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 -- 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.
