Hello Mark ! I have tried this too : http://itineraires.de.bus.free.fr
With parallel lines and generalization :) Julien “djakk” Le dim. 26 janv. 2020 à 05:41, Mark Lester via talk <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hello Mappers, > I've been building this http://buz-map.com, there's a couple of read me's > at the top. There are a stack of issues but this now looks eminently doable. > > My pitch on all this is that people like maps. Give people a map of a > transport network and they will follow the wiggly lines. They will notice > that an island has a connecting ferry and a bus network (see Estonia). > Envisage mountainous and wilderness areas and their transit geography more > easily (see Sweden). Be able to scan an entire metropolis network to it's > extremities without having to use trial and error (see Paris, Prague, > Petersburg, Athens). And generally be intrigued and want to zoom in and > discover. I am not having much success evangelizing this view with regard > to a global transit map. If I can get this to a production state with all > known GTFS, and sex up the high level areas that have no listed transport > with a much deeper road network than you normally get at higher tiers, we > will at least have the "intrigue me" travel map that I personally want. > > Obviously I haven't got very far with the front end. In particular it's > not interacting very well on mobile, it's lousy in fact. I need help in any > way shape or form available but if anyone knows how to get a thin line to > interact in Leaflet on mobile, please suggest. I did try to paint a massive > invisible one on top but it didn't work and I got nowhere with the > debugger, so even help with that would be appreciated. I also want to do > funky stuff like flipping the railways or buses to the foreground on > touching. In a dense centre of a metropolis, being able to flip the metro > or tram network to the top is already an important requirement. The Mapbox > stuff does this but I haven't sussed the layers within tiles stuff and how > to do it yet. > > I've got a game plan to fix most of the other bugs, especially in the rail > routing which is quite screwed right now once you zoom in. I will get the > whole of the visible GTFS world on there, so all of USA that's available, > and anything else that I can find. It's going to take a few months, > probably most of the year including downtime. I say visible GTFS, as oppose > to existing. There is an awful lot of bus data that patently exists as it's > in booking engines, and in GTFS form if it's on Google, but isn't anywhere > easily found. > > What I want to investigate is to use the reduction method I have to draw > efficient level 8 to 1 vector tiles of simplified road networks. So you can > look at say all of India, US, Canada, China, Russia, Brazil or any area of > that size, and get a decent view of the national road infrastructure even > if I haven't got any bus data yet. I still will need to do some of the > same simple reduction used for doing the detailed lower tier standard > rendering of levels 7-16, i.e. filter road classifications down once it > becomes an unavoidable mess even with reduction, leaving only motorways for > the top two or so tiers. I think we will get a usable, readable and > "representative" map of these upper layers, which by default are either > road light or completely vacant. The bus network I have in Europe, which > is just a tiny subset, is messy at the high level, I will try to refine it, > but the trains work, so I am sure motorways will too and we'll tune in the > lower road classifications and with appropriate clustering radii as we > proceed down the tile tree. > > Any input gratefully received. Apologies for the spam of three lists, > please respond directly unless it's something of interest to more than just > me. Also I am in contact with OSM folks, I know I am using free tile > servers. How we run this as a public self funding service is one of the > many things I need help with. It seems an obvious gimme for anyone selling > bus tickets but it's not easy to get anyone to pick the phone up. I have > resigned myself to having to build a production system in between doing not > a lot. > > Mark Lester > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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