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)

Resources

• http://blog.openhamilton.ca/2014/07/hsr-real-time-data-hackathon-announced.html
• https://github.com/OpenHamilton/TransitTourist
• https://github.com/OpenHamilton/HSR-Transit-Data/wiki
• http://www.hamilton.ca/ProjectsInitiatives/OpenData/
• http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Develop
• http://openlayers.org/
• http://diveintohtml5.info/geolocation.html
• http://cordova.apache.org/