Swisstrains.ch: Present, past and future

Swisstrains.ch Present, past and future Vasile CotovanuZürich, webtuesday.ch Jan 10, 2012

Agenda • Today • Past • Next • Q &A90s 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012+

Today 2011 DEMO

Layers 2011

Layers 2011 DEMO

Make them move ! 2007 - 2011 Live positions ? map.local.ch vehicle simpleservice JSVehicle Tram2 A S1 S2 13:26 S3 B 13:10 13:14 13:22 13:30 13:35 74% 55% Polylines S2 - S3 S3 S2

2007-2011 Got data ?Components • (Relational) database (SBB timetables) • Graphics database (stations and lines)

Text: vehicle-link-station(2007)-2011stations station vehicle vehiclesstation_id stops link vehicle_id name many-many name vehicle_id station_id departure DEMO

Text: vehicle-link-station (2007)-2011 stations station vehicle vehicles station_id stops link vehicle_id name many-many name vehicle_id station_id departureSBBCFR 1’8171’485 150’470 20’822 13’232 1’312 DEMO

Text: populate link, vehicle 2008stations vehicles vehicle vehicle_id name stops link many-many vehicle_id station_id departure DEMO

All stations 2008

All stations 2008 boat bus cablecar train tramstations 265 18,797 549 1,810 477 21,898vehicles 2,534 144,150 220,669 16,498 18,461 402,312 stops 8,013 2,433,815 447,806 177,520 417,510 3,484,664

Vectors database 2007-2011 DEMO

Fusion Tables 2010 DEMO

Integrate DBs 20072011

Changes roundup 2007 2011 Textual DB crawler PHP, MySQL, Ruby, SQLite Map Engine GMaps API v2, custom (messy) map helpers v3 API, geometry library Map layers Own generated polylines, points Fusion Tables JS Engine Mess :) No 3rd party library More structured, ordered + jQueryUX, page speed, look’n’feel OK-ish (in the beginning) IT ROCKS BIG TIME ! Graphics DB tools Geomedia + swisstopo layers QGIS, OpenLayers, GMaps, GEarth, etc DBs integration tools FME, ODBC, MS Access :) Ruby, GDAL Versioning Power of CTRL-Z Git - master/dev/sbb/cfr

Build yourself ! DEMOgit clone git@github.com:vasile/vehicle-simulator.git

One more feature ! 2011• Backlinking: follow vehicle by name• Inject a custom vehicle (i.e. MySuperTrain) DEMO

Passion (obsession)

Next steps• Lausanne, watch out :)• #opendata• swisstrains.ch• GeoAdmin API (Swisstopo)• Simcity-like ? (Remember local.ch Live Trams ?)

Thanks !• http://www.vasile.ch • http://twitter.com/vasile23• https://github.com/vasile

Swisstrains.ch: Present, past and future

by Vasile Cotovanu

Accessibility

Categories

Upload Details

Usage Rights

2 Embeds 14

Statistics

Swisstrains.ch: Present, past and future Presentation Transcript

http://www.twylah.com	9
http://a0.twimg.com	5