Re: [datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-18 Thread Sajjad Anwar
Hey, On Feb 19, 2014 10:34 AM, "Suvajit" wrote: > > > Good job Thej & Sajjd on scraping BMTC stop & route info from their website and presenting on OSM. > > But I am sure that if we count bus stations in Bangalore it will have 1000 stops more ( around 4000 in total ). So we need to find those mis

Re: [datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-18 Thread Suvajit
Good job Thej & Sajjd on scraping BMTC stop & route info from their website and presenting on OSM. But I am sure that if we count bus stations in Bangalore it will have 1000 stops more ( around 4000 in total ). So we need to find those missing ones. Google Map has better list of bus stations fo

Re: [datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-18 Thread Thejesh GN
Is it live somewhere? -- Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ http://thejeshgn.com GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 On Feb 18, 2014 8:27 PM, "srinivas kodali" wrote: > I was going through the BMTC technical document to implement Expected > Time of Arrival (ETA) for Buses in Bangalore. > > Scrapping real-time

Re: [datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-18 Thread srinivas kodali
I was going through the BMTC technical document to implement Expected Time of Arrival (ETA) for Buses in Bangalore. Scrapping real-time data would be more fun. if they won`t give API`s On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Meera wrote: > If anybody want to develop any public data tools/widgets like

Re: [datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-18 Thread Meera
If anybody want to develop any public data tools/widgets like bus routes - we can embed it on bangalore.citizenmatters.in/data-tools as objects. It can help general junta to access it easily. -Meera On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Sajjad Anwar wrote: > OSM allows gtfs tags - > http://wiki.ope

Re: [datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-18 Thread Sajjad Anwar
OSM allows gtfs tags - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/General_Transit_Feed_Specification Since GTFS is a widely accepted standard. I'm asking some friends at OSM about uploading the bus stop data to the repository. Since we scraped it there might be a challenge. Do you know what license BMTC p

Re: [datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-18 Thread Thejesh GN
We can. But if there is OSM version of the same, i will prefer that. -- Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ http://thejeshgn.com GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 On Feb 18, 2014 5:27 PM, "Sajjad Anwar" wrote: > On a second thought and while talking people, it might make sense to > publish this data in the G

[datameet] Re: [datameet.delhi] How about a election data gathering meet-up?

2014-02-18 Thread Debamitro Chakraborti
On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 16:23:54 UTC+5:30, sumandro wrote: > > Anyday after Saturday, Feb 23 is good for me. Sunday, Feb 24 will be great. > > saturday is 22 sunday is 23 monday is 24 -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message becau

Re: [datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-18 Thread Sajjad Anwar
On a second thought and while talking people, it might make sense to publish this data in the GTFS format (https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/) -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Grou

Re: [datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-18 Thread Sajjad Anwar
I'm fixing tiny things as I come across on the app - http://geohacker.in/bmtc/ (larger circles, easy to click etc, responsive etc.) Thej, schedule would be fabulous. We could potentially build a simple app which takes in destinations and suggest routes. I don't have a lot of time, so if someone's

Re: [datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-18 Thread Thejesh GN
Yes. http://www.mybmtc.com/service/timings/gns/General%20Services check arrival and departure. I will scrape them next :) Thej -- Thejesh GN *⏚* ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ http://thejeshgn.com GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 3:36 PM, srinivas kodali wrote: > is there schedule data too

Re: [datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-18 Thread srinivas kodali
is there schedule data too somewhere on the site? On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Thejesh GN wrote: > > Uploaded the routes info. Here it is > http://openbangalore.org/available-data/ > > If you are a developer get sqlite > For non developers: > - routes - Gives route info > - busstops - Bus s

Re: Election data (Was: [datameet] [Bangalore] Open Data Camp 2014 Confirmed March 22nd and 23rd - Google Offices)

2014-02-18 Thread Raphael Susewind
Hey everybody, I am working on PDF electoral rolls, but struggle with unicode conversion issues (a Crystal Reports bug in the version the ECI currently uses, at least in some states such as UP or Gujarat, which leads to a corrupted ToUnicodeCMap, which means you cannot properly copy and paste from

Re: Election data (Was: [datameet] [Bangalore] Open Data Camp 2014 Confirmed March 22nd and 23rd - Google Offices)

2014-02-18 Thread Nisha Thompson
This is awesome Anand. We're going to have a free the pdf event the weekend before. Let's get together and make sure we don't duplicate effort. Will add your work to the pdf event wiki page. Anyone else with election data? On Feb 18, 2014 2:49 PM, "Anand Chitipothu" wrote: > Hello everyone, >

Election data (Was: [datameet] [Bangalore] Open Data Camp 2014 Confirmed March 22nd and 23rd - Google Offices)

2014-02-18 Thread Anand Chitipothu
Hello everyone, Looks like there is lot of interest in extracting election data from PDFs. I've started extracting lot of data from voter lists, esp. for Bangalore. All the data is still sitting in my server. Couple of samples: http://d.anandology.com/karnataka/pdfs/AC154/AC1540111.json I start

Re: [datameet] 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-18 Thread Sajjad Anwar
Thanks! I put together a map using the data - http://geohacker.in/bmtc/ You can search for bus stops and neighborhoods. The search uses the bus stops data and city level data from geonames.org There are couple of things that have to be fixed. But if you come across some issues or have ideas for n