behind the scenes of swisstrains.ch
DESCRIPTION
Presented some history of swisstrains.ch project from "conception" day (early 2007) until today and what is the motivation that drives me to update it 4 years later. The presentation was done during the romanian IT meetup in Zürich.TRANSCRIPT
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Swisstrains.chBehind the scenes
Vasile CotovanuOct 24, 2011
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Agenda
• History
• How
• Today
• Q & A
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History
• Robert de Heer
• Live - March, 2007
• local.ch
• SBB follow-up
• CFR (romanian railways)
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How
• “LIVE”
• SBB timetables
• Swisstopo maps
• Google Maps API
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SBB Timetables
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Swisstopo
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Railway network
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Make them move !
vehiclesimpleservice
map.local.ch
JS
A S1 S2 S3 B
13:10 13:14 13:22 13:30 13:35
Vehicle Tram2
13:26
74%
55%
Polylines S2 - S3
S2
S3
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How ?
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Figures
• 5,000 km of railways
• 2,000 stations
• 14,000 vehicles
• 150,000 stops
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Follow ups
• SBB crawler improved
• Zürich trams “live” in 2009
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Improved SBB spider
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Improved SBB spider
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local.ch “Live” trams
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Today
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JavaScript
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Speed
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GIS software
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Vector data
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Vector data
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Whole area
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Build yourself !
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Thanks !
• http://www.vasile.ch
• https://github.com/vasile
• Q & A
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