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Add Paris, France.
Your service seems amazing. Unfortunatly, Paris is not include yet.
146 votesunder review ·
AdminStefan Wehrmeyer
(Admin, Mapnificent)
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I don’t choose to not include a city, the local transit authority chooses not to publish their data!
Please list the necessary transit agencies for this city and request GTFS data from them.
I am not able to request data myself from every transit agency, especially if such a request requires well written french. -
It would be magnificent if you could set settings as only buses or only walking, etc.
Here in London I am not particularly fond of travelling by tube, I would really like to know how time it will take me travelling only by bus, or perhaps walking, or a combination of all settings.
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add a "show me how" link that details the bus/train links used to get there in that amount of time.
If possible, it would be nice to see how some of these time are achieved. I live in DC and some of these look pretty optimistic. If you've found better ways to get around, I want to be able to go from pretty pictures to more efficient commuting!
105 votesplanned ·AdminStefan Wehrmeyer
(Admin, Mapnificent)
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This is a good idea! Technically it requires a bit more effort. Be aware that Mapnificent is not a trip planner and is partly guesstimating. But if it appears overly optimistic in some parts, an analysis is definitely important. Will do, but need to figure out right UI and implementation, may take some time.
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91 votesplanned ·AdminStefan Wehrmeyer
(Admin, Mapnificent)
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Please list all the different transit agencies that would need to be added. Please list available GTFS data for these agencies, if data is available. If data is not available, please write to the transit agency and ask them to publish GTFS data for developers to use free of charge.
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Take frequency of transit service into account.
Frequent bus routes are more useful then buses leaving once per hour. I know you assume "that you will time your journey in a way that you don’t have to wait for your first transport option" but that's not always realistic.
Maybe with coloured shading you could distinguish what is accessible on frequent networks (leaving at least once every 15 minutes) and what is accessible with less frequent service.
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work in IE9
It'd be great if this worked in IE9.
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Add support for mobile browsers.
Does not work on iPad. Tried two different browsers.
68 votesunder review ·AdminStefan Wehrmeyer
(Admin, Mapnificent)
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Tricky! Mapnificent needs some CPU power and iPad is probably not able to handle it. I will work with the iPad Simulator in the coming week, but can’t guarantee that it will work on an actual one (don’t own one myself). I will report progress here.
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Please add Melbourne!
What a Brilliant tool! Great for research purposes.
52 votesplanned ·AdminStefan Wehrmeyer
(Admin, Mapnificent)
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In order to add your city, the local transport provider needs to publish its public transport data in the GTFS format.
Please write your public transport agency and ask them to provide developers with GTFS data for free and under fair conditions. Point out the benefits they have when developers build cool applications like Mapnificent based on this data.
Please report progress and post any relevant links here. Thanks. -
47 votesunder review ·AdminStefan Wehrmeyer
(Admin, Mapnificent)
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I had a brief discussion on Twitter about STIB’s data for Brussels. It is available for free, but unfortunately under conditions that are not acceptable to me: http://www.stib.be/data-sharing.html?l=en
The general conditions have some ridiculous paragraphs as I mentioned on Twitter before (https://twitter.com/#!/mapnificent/status/7208275082739712)
The conditions I have a problem with are:
- § 4.3 no modifications to the data set. Mapnificent transforms the data to be able to work the way it does, there is no other way. This paragraph may or may not apply, but I’m rather on the safe side and wait for the agency to give permission (like I did for San Diego and Los Angeles).
– § 4.5: Sharing usage statistics twice a year. I don’t mind sharing statistics on a voluntary basis, but I don’t want to commit myself to a report twice a year. If I forget, I violate the conditions and might… more -
41 votesplanned ·AdminStefan Wehrmeyer
(Admin, Mapnificent)
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If the city of Zürich provides data, I am happy to add it.
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Add Singapore, Singapore
add the the small country off the coast of malaysia....please
41 votesplanned ·AdminStefan Wehrmeyer
(Admin, Mapnificent)
responded
In order to add your city, the local transport provider needs to publish its public transport data in the GTFS format.
Please write your public transport agency and ask them to provide developers with GTFS data for free and under fair conditions. Point out the benefits they have when developers build cool applications like Mapnificent based on this data.
Please report progress and post any relevant links here. Thanks. -
bicycle speed
The estimates of how far you can get with a bicycle are woefully conservative, at least in Boston. Could you make it so that we can enter our own biking and walking speeds?
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Have a polygon export option - shapefile/tabfile
This idea is very, very hot for people trying to relocate their office. It would be great to be able to export the polygons so that they could be used in presentations and/or layered to get multiple ranges of travel time to list two ideas.
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36 votesplanned ·AdminStefan Wehrmeyer
(Admin, Mapnificent)
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Even though MARTA has released data to Google Transit, it has not made data available to the public as far as I know.
If you can find GTFS data for download for Atlanta, let me know. Otherwise contact MARTA and ask them to publish the data they give to Google: http://www.itsmarta.com/contact-us.aspx -
36 votes
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35 votesstarted ·AdminStefan Wehrmeyer
(Admin, Mapnificent)
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I just sent an enquiry to Big Blue Bus about their GTFS data (which seems to be only available to Google at the moment).
If you want to weigh in, please use their contact form to ask them to publish their GTFS data: http://www.bigbluebus.com/contactus/index.aspIf there are other agencies I should include, please mention them in the comments.
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Add Copenhagen, Denmark.
This looks like a great app. Hope to see more european cities soon
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Add Brisbane Australia
This is a wonderful app that could reshape the growth and development of cities. Brisbane Australia has a great public transport system and all the data you need is available at translink.com.au. Trains, buses and ferries.
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Plz add Vienna, Austria
Plz add Vienna, Austria
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An option to set a default location would be handy.
...even more cool would be the ability to tag locations (eg home, work, Joe the best friend) which you could quickly select from the location pup-up bubble
...maybe even pull addresses from gmail contacts to quickly see where you can meet with friends (ok, gmail contacts may be a bit too extravagant).
28 votes
