Swisstrains.chPresent, past and future

Vasile CotovanuJan 10, 2012

Zürich, webtuesday.ch

Agenda

• Today

• Past

• Next

• Q & A

90s 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012+

Today 2011

DEMO

Layers 2011

Layers 2011

Layers 2011

Layers 2011

DEMO

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

Live positions ?2007 - 2011

Got data ?2007-2011

• (Relational) database (SBB timetables)

• Graphics database (stations and lines)

Components

Text: vehicle-link-station

station

station_idname

vehicle

vehicle_idname

link

many-many

vehicle_idstation_iddeparture

(2007)-2011

stops

stations vehicles

DEMO

Text: vehicle-link-station

station

station_idname

vehicle

vehicle_idname

link

many-many

vehicle_idstation_iddeparture

(2007)-2011

stops

stations vehicles

DEMO

1’817 13’232150’4701’485 1’31220’822

SBBCFR

Text: populate link, vehicle

vehicle

vehicle_idname

link

many-many

vehicle_idstation_iddeparture

2008

stops

stations

vehicles

DEMO

All stations 2008

All stations 2008

All stations 2008

All stations 2008

All stations 2008

boat bus cablecar train tram

stations

vehicles

stops

265 18,797 549 1,810 477 21,898

2,534 144,150 220,669 16,498 18,461 402,312

8,013 2,433,815 447,806 177,520 417,510 3,484,664

Vectors database 2007-2011

DEMO

Fusion Tables 2010

DEMO

Integrate DBs2007

2011

Changes roundup

2007 2011

Textual DB crawler

Map Engine

Map layers

JS Engine

UX, page speed, look’n’feel

Graphics DB tools

DBs integration tools

Versioning

PHP, MySQL, Ruby, SQLite

GMaps API v2, custom (messy) map helpers v3 API, geometry library

Own generated polylines, points Fusion Tables

Mess :) No 3rd party library More structured, ordered + jQuery

OK-ish (in the beginning) IT ROCKS BIG TIME !

Geomedia + swisstopo layers QGIS, OpenLayers, GMaps, GEarth, etc

FME, ODBC, MS Access :) Ruby, GDAL

Power of CTRL-Z Git - master/dev/sbb/cfr

Build yourself !

git clone git@github.com:vasile/vehicle-simulator.git

DEMO

One more feature ! 2011

• Backlinking: follow vehicle by name

• Inject a custom vehicle (i.e. MySuperTrain)

DEMO

Passion (obsession)

Passion (obsession)

Passion (obsession)

Next steps

• Lausanne, watch out :)

• #opendata

• swisstrains.ch

• GeoAdmin API (Swisstopo)

• Simcity-like ? (Remember local.ch Live Trams ?)

Thanks !

• http://www.vasile.ch

• http://twitter.com/vasile23

• https://github.com/vasile