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Sunday, November 8, 2020

The Mistaken Streets Of San Francisco


The Transit Map of San Francisco MTA is a real-time fake map of San Francisco's bus, streetcar, too subway scheme services, based on the MTA timetables. The map animates the movements of the city's buses, streetcars too subway scheme trains on a Google Map.

The vehicle movements on the map are determined past times the timetables provided inwards the GTFS dataset of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. The map plant past times plugging the city's  GTFS dataset into Vasile Cotovanu's Transit Map library.

Vasile has likewise released the code for the GTFS plug-in every bit well. The code converts a gear upward of GTFS files into a SQLite database too the GeoJSONs needed past times the Transit Map library. So if yous desire to practise your ain fake animated map of a city's transit network all yous postulate to practise is to select grip of the city's GTFS dataset, use GTFS-viz to practise the database too GeoJSON's too and hence plug the information into the Transit Map library. Voila yous convey your really ain animated fake transit map.