Re: [datameet] Local sub urban trains

2014-03-02 Thread Samuel Rajkumar
I used to take trains from Lottegollahalli to Banaswadi regularly last year. I know people who travel regularly between Lottegollahalli and Karmelram / Belandur Road. I use http://indiarailinfo.com/trains/passengera lot for schedules. On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Thejesh GN wrote: > - do you

[datameet] Local sub urban trains

2014-03-02 Thread Thejesh GN
- do you use it? Like from kr puram to yeshwanthpur ? - do you know anybody who uses it? - do they use passengers or express? What are the rules - can we build a system which makes it easy to use. - any other ideas - next scraping would be metro n local train data. -- Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎ

Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore

2014-03-02 Thread Sanjay Bhangar
Hey, Great to see this conversation happening, hope to be able to contribute. My two bits inline - On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On 2 March 2014 14:51, Sajjad Anwar wrote: > [...] >> Hey, you don't necessarily need geodjango for these. You can write simple >> spatial que

Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore

2014-03-02 Thread Gora Mohanty
On 2 March 2014 14:51, Sajjad Anwar wrote: [...] > Hey, you don't necessarily need geodjango for these. You can write simple > spatial queries in PostGIS. > And they aren't very expensive. For example - > http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-2.0/ST_Within.html GeoDjango queries tra

Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore

2014-03-02 Thread Sajjad Anwar
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Thejesh GN wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > >> On 2 March 2014 13:13, Thejesh GN wrote: >> > >> > On Mar 1, 2014 7:59 PM, "Gautam John" wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Gora Mohanty >> wrote: >> >> >> >> > ide

Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore

2014-03-02 Thread Gora Mohanty
On 2 March 2014 14:27, Thejesh GN wrote: [...] > My focus is to deliver bangalore data through API. that includes location > based query too > - For example given lat, long what are the nearest bus stops. > - Given a lat, long what are the nearest schools > - Given a lat, long whats the AC, PB and

Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore

2014-03-02 Thread Thejesh GN
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On 2 March 2014 13:13, Thejesh GN wrote: > > > > On Mar 1, 2014 7:59 PM, "Gautam John" wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Gora Mohanty > wrote: > >> > >> > idea of having a way to get data from the Excel files, and other > >>

Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore

2014-03-02 Thread Gora Mohanty
On 2 March 2014 13:13, Thejesh GN wrote: > > On Mar 1, 2014 7:59 PM, "Gautam John" wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: >> >> > idea of having a way to get data from the Excel files, and other >> > sources, on >> > data.gov.in and other places, and providing real API-