Author
Manuel Martin Salvador is currently a researcher in Machine Learning working at Bournemouth University.
About
This project was made during civic hackday on 7th Feb 2015 organized by Hackbmth.
During the search of accommodation, many factors are taken into account like price, nearby facilities, etc. Another aspect to consider by many people is the distance to a bus stop in case they need to travel often to work. There is currently not available way of visualizing such information easily in a map in the UK. That is the motivation for developing this project.
A similar poject was made in Bangalore, where a heatmap is used for showing what areas are covered by a bus stop. I have developed a similar implentation using the bus stops in Bournemouth with the data released by the UK government.
However, such maps only take into account the aerial distance which is only realistic if we have an autogyro (in which case we wouldn't travel by bus :)). An alternative map showing the real walking distance to the bus stops is required. The method I have developed creates a grid around the bus stop and calculate the walking distance from each point in the grid to the bus stop using routino (a router for OpenStreetMap). Then, such data is visualized using a heatmap. Nevertheless, the representation can still be improved. During the developing of this project I found that Route360 is actually working on the same thing but currently is only available for Berlin.
Source Code
Source code and data used in this project is realeased under Public Domain in Github: https://github.com/DraXus/bus-coverage-heatmap
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