[Talk-in] BusRoutes.in

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace at pobox.com> wrote:

> Arun, what would it take to make BusRoutes.in usable in Bangalore? What
> data do you need?


 Hi Jace,

We require the basic stage data of all the routes. If its in a machine
readable format like csv or in some structured format, we could dump the
data.Entering data through django-admin is painful even for a single route.
This in first place is not present or very scattered (like praja.in)
contains usable volvo routes info and btis.in has some 3 year old(?) data.
Then comes the challenge of mapping the stage to lat-longs. This not just
requires the map data (which is decent enough in bangalore), but also few
people with some good knowledge of the city.The person should be able to
correct any mistakes in the data(data from corporation will be erroneous).

Assuming we do this bangalore needs its own customization because of its
one-ways.We might require to create 2 routes (UP and DOWN) for quite a few
routes and the routing algo should be modified to consider this.

We did not make any attempt to try this for bangalore as we were told BMTC
would release its data under GTFS soon (Its actually ~8 months now and we
havent seen any light). We can probably try creating the instance and feed
data manually (create csv ourselves for minimal routes and give a shot)

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Srikanth.L
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