Posted by
Marcel Fortin on
May 26, 2006; 7:00pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Travel-time-maps-from-mySociety-tp637p638.html
The Toronto Transit Commission gladly provided us at the University of
Toronto Map Library their bus and train routes in Shapefile format, but
not the individual bus stops. Not out of any kind of restrictive policy,
but instead they simply did not have them in any kind of GIS or other
georeferenced format. Could this be the case in Halifax?
It sounds like you maybe need to do some OpenStreetMap.org type mapping
yourself! If you're familiar with their web pages, you can put in the
wiki of the area of interest and type of data you want to obtain. It's
the hope that others with the same area of interest can band together
with you to do the mapping using GPS units. I see there are currently
no projects underway in Nova Scotia
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Canada:Nova_Scotia------------------------------
Marcel Fortin
GIS and Map Librarian, University of Toronto
130 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 416 946 0522
Daniel Haran wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here's a great project in the UK demonstrating what would be possible
> if public transit data were liberated.
>
> As some of you know, I've been trying to get my city of Halifax (NS)
> to release bus stop locations and schedules, which they refuse to do.
> While most Canadian cities will share *some* data, none that I know of
> will share everything that is needed to make these travel-time maps.
>
> Daniel.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tom Steinberg <
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> Date: May 26, 2006 3:34 AM
> Subject: [Geowanking] Travel time maps from mySociety
> To:
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>
>
> The ever-gifted Chris Lightfoot has been writing code to scrape
> journey planner websites, producing "a solution to Laplace's equation,
> fixing its value to the value of the travel-time on the boundary of
> its domain", and drinking coffee all in order to produce these
> fascinating maps for your delectation:
>
>
http://www.mysociety.org/2006/travel-time-maps/>
> Hope you like.
>
> Tom
>
> --
> Director, mySociety
> 07811 082158
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