I am not having much progress selling the idea that people like to look at a map and discover stuff. I like to devise "excursions", daft train trips that last weeks, that kind of thing. The layout of any region's transit infrastructure., from metropolis, country to entire continental level is at the very least highly intriguing.
You obviously have to do this with vector tiles, but even then you need to rapidly simplify the network if you want it to be interactive obviously, the lines have to be merged and unique else you wont be able to interact with them. It's timetable driven we only paint where we know there's a service, not everywhere we can see railway track and not by crudely styling out road classifications, It's not a journey planner. it's a route finder though. You get to see every route in any context just by looking at it. it's a map. I am using graphhopper extensively behind the scenes obviously but a much closer integration with a multi-modal journy planner is required. Once you actually get down to asking what time the bus actually comes we are better off in a journey planner proper. Existing journey planners to my knowledge dont allow you to wave the cursor outside your hotel and instantly see where all the nearest buses go to.
They dont allow you to look at a country and instantly see there's an interesting wiggly line on some extremity of the network that will invariably turn out to be some kind of tourism target. They don't allow you to look at an entire continent and visualize all international ferries, arterial bus routes and essentially the entire rail network, in one blink.
I need to put back the whole of TfI buses and ferries as we have essentially comprehensive data set for ROI. And I have some bugs and thresholds to fix. I will update this thread if there's a significant step forward, Collaboration or just vocal support is sought.
I head up the development of a MaaS provider in the UK and always on the lookout for people doing anything new in the world of travel.
One of my wants for next year is to build a better discovery engine for finding routes from over travel content types.
I'd love to hear more about what your interested in building with this.
Despite saying "It's a complete map of ALL transport networks, on a single map. ", it appears to be missing the London Underground which is probably the most important transport network in a major world capital.
