So GTFS got renamed to "General Transit Feed Specification" because it is now an open spec with changes proposed by the community. Google doesn't want people to think they're calling all the shots here with GTFS.
Google requires GTFS data for use on Maps, but many agencies have their GTFS data available to the world (under varying licensing terms) and lots of people other than Google Maps consume GTFS data. posted by GuyZero at 11:31 AM on February 9, 2011
Now if only someone could animate this Visualization of Scientific Collaboration Between Researchers. posted by cashman at 11:35 AM on February 9, 2011
Data visualization would have been better if they color coded buses, express buses, and trains...
Data visualisation would be much better if we could see tiny little bus, train and ferry icons driving, swimming around the map... Maybe the trains could all be little "Thomas the tank engines"? posted by greenhornet at 11:37 AM on February 9, 2011
That's very cool. It's a pretty piss-poor transit system in practice though, I could talk all day about it. Partly that's because it's such a sprawled city and the train lines are too narrow but those are still failures of city planning.
Great video though thanks for sharing. Very eye-opening for a resident :) posted by Dillonlikescookies at 2:10 PM on February 9, 2011
Linked from it are some rather cool earthquake maps of NZ too.
Cool until I realised that every single day of my NZ holiday there were dozens of earthquakes, often under my feet, and any of which would have made the news in the UK... posted by sodium lights the horizon at 4:06 PM on February 9, 2011
It's a pretty piss-poor transit system in practice though, I could talk all day about it.
I've been in Auckland for a few months, and while I mostly walk to and from work from Epsom, when I've caught buses they've been on time, relatively quick, and significantly cheaper than Wellington.
Cool until I realised that every single day of my NZ holiday there were dozens of earthquakes, often under my feet, and any of which would have made the news in the UK... Unless things fall off shelves we usually get a three or four line "brief" article on page 3. We've got some pretty insane building standards that prevent small earthquakes from doing a whole lot. If the Christchurch earthquake had hit anywhere else in the world (even Wellington, really) I feel like there would have been a fuckload of casualties. posted by doublehappy at 4:38 PM on February 9, 2011
posted by schmod at 10:50 AM on February 9, 2011