Swisstrains.chBehind the scenes

Vasile CotovanuOct 24, 2011

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Agenda

• History

• How

• Today

• Q & A

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History

• Robert de Heer

• Live - March, 2007

• local.ch

• SBB follow-up

• CFR (romanian railways)

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How

• “LIVE”

• SBB timetables

• Swisstopo maps

• Google Maps API

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SBB Timetables

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Swisstopo

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Railway network

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Make them move !

vehiclesimpleservice

map.local.ch

JS

A S1 S2 S3 B

13:10 13:14 13:22 13:30 13:35

Vehicle Tram2

13:26

74%

55%

Polylines S2 - S3

S2

S3

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How ?

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Figures

• 5,000 km of railways

• 2,000 stations

• 14,000 vehicles

• 150,000 stops

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Follow ups

• SBB crawler improved

• Zürich trams “live” in 2009

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Improved SBB spider

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Improved SBB spider

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local.ch “Live” trams

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Today

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JavaScript

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Speed

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GIS software

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Vector data

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Vector data

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Whole area

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Build yourself !

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Thanks !

• http://www.vasile.ch

• https://github.com/vasile

• Q & A

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