/TransitTourist

Tourism Points of Interest to Transit Users

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Synopsis

Locate & learn about points of interest during your trip on the HSR!

TransitTourist is a work-in-progress.

It's a prototype product that came out of the HSR Real-Time Data Hackathon put on by Open Hamilton. It relies on open data from the Hamilton Street Railway and the City of Hamilton.

Design Considerations

  • Should locate and map the users location
  • Should not store personal information
  • Should allow user to selectively layer datasets into the application
  • Should use existing FOSS libraries where possible (ie. OpenLayers)
  • Should use open API's where possible (ie. OpenStreetMaps)
  • Should start simple with 1 layer based on an existing open data set

Next Steps

  • Add marker for user's location using the HTML5 geolocation api
  • Add POI markers using open dataset
  • Add bus locations & route information (ie. stops, detours)
  • Wrap HTML5 app with Cordova
  • A project name
  • Code & Data licenses
  • Clean up repo (we don't need the full OpenLayers distribution)
  • Additional data layers (events, civic activities, etc)

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