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

2014-02-27 Thread Arvind Shivakumar
Hey Guys, Do you think it will help if we spoke to the top brass at BMTC about releasing the data? -Arvind ~ iPhone - A Vegan designed Mobile device. On 27-Feb-2014, at 3:48, Ankur Nagar ankur.na...@gmail.com wrote: -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/

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

2014-02-26 Thread Ankur Nagar
Super interesting thread - Satya, wanted to check, why this may not be anytime soon? On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 4:35:28 AM UTC-5, satyaakam wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:03 PM, srinivas kodali iota@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Thejesh, Do you think is there any chance to

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

2014-02-25 Thread srinivas kodali
Thejesh, Do you think is there any chance to get transit agencies open there datasets across india through open data portal (http://data.gov.in/) ? On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Thejesh GN i...@thejeshgn.com wrote: We can crowdsource. Let me think about it. BTW now we have timings

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

2014-02-25 Thread satyaakam goswami
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:03 PM, srinivas kodali iota.kod...@gmail.comwrote: Thejesh, Do you think is there any chance to get transit agencies open there datasets across india through open data portal (http://data.gov.in/) ? No not in near future. -Satya Satyaakam.net

[datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-20 Thread inosaint
Like Suvajit pointed out, there are bus stops missing from the dataset. For example when I looked at Sajjad's map, I found that on Tumkur Road between Gorguntepalya and Jalahalli Cross, not a single bus stop was marked(I think there are atleast 3). Can we possibly have something like

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

2014-02-19 Thread Suvajit
Hi Sajjad, I propose to use Google API itself to extract some information. How is this violating G M terms of service ? But it is subject to test whether really we can scrape out good data from it or not. Regards, Suvajit On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:11:22 AM UTC+5:30, Sajjad Anwar

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

2014-02-19 Thread srinivas kodali
Thejesh, They are yet to implement it in Bangalore, will take some 6 months i guess. The tender got rolled out in last March. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Sajjad Anwar m...@sajjad.in wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Suvajit suvajit.sengu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sajjad, I

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 iota.kod...@gmail.comwrote: is

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 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

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

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 meerak...@gmail.com wrote: If anybody want to develop any public data

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 iota.kod...@gmail.com wrote: I was going through the BMTC technical document to implement Expected Time of Arrival (ETA) for Buses in Bangalore.

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 for

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

2014-02-18 Thread Sajjad Anwar
Hey, On Feb 19, 2014 10:34 AM, Suvajit suvajit.sengu...@gmail.com 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

[datameet] Re: 2200+ BMTC busstop locations

2014-02-17 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
Awesome! I had scrapped some data, but had left the project incomplete due to paucity of time. I'm eagerly waiting for the Routes. Regards, Devdatta On Monday, February 17, 2014 10:10:04 PM UTC+5:30, Thejesh GN wrote: I scraped BMTC site today for details. Now I have all the routes and