This repo contains my work for the Open Guelph hackathon, taking place over 24 hours from the morning of February 22nd until that of the 23rd.
I plan to use the Flask framework to create a web application that will give directions to local parks and attractions. Here's to a productive weekend!
And we're off!
Fairly slow start. Created a scripts directory to hold the Python scripts I'm using to parse data. At present it holds one script: parseRoutes, which parses the stop_times.txt file, converting the data into Route classes and storing it in a pickled file.
Well, five hours in and my head is starting to hurt. :P
I've been focussing on the bus stops themselves now, using the data in stops.txt. I spent a bunch (probably too much) time fixing stops.txt, since it had a bunch of typos and different naming conventions and I had to wrap my head around a few things. Currently, I am assuming stops longitude and latitude data is 100% correct, and that is how I am differentiating stops. The stops.txt file being used currently has been modified, the original is saved as old_stops.txt.
Having done all of that, there is now a new parsing script called parseStops (which takes bus stop data and puts sorts it with Stop classes, containing the stop's name, latitude, longitude, and routes that use it) and a scriptcalled stopExperiments which I use to play with the data.
After a brief but terrifying episode featuring a non-functional computer, I've added a parseParks script.
Whew! There's light at the end of the tunnel!
I have started working through bus route calculations in the calculations script. At present, I can locate the nearest bus stop to a latitude/longitude pair and determine when the next bus leaves from a specified stop. (Any stop, in theory, but I only care about the UC and Guelph Central)
Past the halfway point, beginning to feel it. A bit behind schedule, but the back-end is close enough to done I can justify starting the front end.
At present I can find the closest bus stop to a co-ordinate, find a bus route that reaches it, say when the next bus leaves, and determine what stops are along the way. However, the data my code generates at present is correct but often far from efficient. I'll have to go back and fix that later.
I reverted the bus stop information to the official file, and tweaked my code to work around it.
I feel like I haven't accomplished much in the last four hours, but I haven't stopped working so I must have done something.
Created generic Place class and converted Parks into Places. Also made some headway on the webapp front-end.
Well, that was quite the morning. Despite long stretches where I was hardly functioning, I managed to rewrite parts of calculations to compare multiple bus stops and pick the best one - accuracy is still a bit spotty though.
The frontend is basically functional, I'll just be fleshing it out and adding some more detailed data for the demo.
Gah! Almost done! Front end is looking great, now just need to implement the "Do Something" page.
Well, here it is. The last commit. I'm stopping myself now before I break something, because I'll be demoing my development version and Vim has been acting up so I'm not taking any chances.
Demos start at 10, so here goes!