Hello all, I wanted to share a small civic data project I've been quietly working on since last year. This is a continuously growing, open, versioned dataset of road traffic conditions across a set of pre-determined Bangalore routes, each roughly 10km long. The premise is simple – it asks Google Maps "how long do you think it takes to get from point A to point B?"
The data has been accumulating twice an hour, every hour of every day, seven days a week for the past 8 months now. The goal was to build a cheap-to-maintain, easy-to-manage, transparent, trustworthy, open, public traffic dataset for research and civic engagement. So... https://github.com/thecont1/traffic-monitor-lizard In the past month, I've also built an app on this dataset, which makes the data highly accessible and usable. The app lets you compare current travel speeds against historical patterns. You can even go back in time to see what the traffic was like on a given day at a certain time. It's a powerful dashboard with no backend, nothing to install, fully open source: *trafficOracle* https://co.thecontrarian.in/ I'd love for datameetvadis to poke around, raise issues, and more importantly, adapt it for your city. Happy to answer any questions! Regards, Mahesh __________ *Mahesh Shantaram* | *www.thecontrarian.in* <http://www.thecontrarian.in> | *Bangalore* | *+91 99801 29770* -- 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]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/b1da0fa7-3881-4ce5-a690-89701a3b8e35n%40googlegroups.com.
