The fork can process large GTFS files, contains a poster-generation code, adds a possibility to restrict the visualization area within a certain radius, and other improvements.
GTFS is an abbreviation for General Transit Feed Specification, a standard which “defines a common format for public transportation schedules and associated geographic information” (source).
The idea of this project is to generate beautiful and informative visualizations from publicly available GTFS datasets. The program draws the routes which transportation entities take and emphasizes the ones which are frequented more often by painting them thicker and in a stronger opacity.
The thickness and color intensity of the drawn lines is chosen using
log(trips_happening_on_this_shape_id). All trips in the GTFS feed
are counted (not just days or a week).
How to generate a visualization.
The currently colors used are:
tram #0000ff blue
subway, metro #00ff00 green
rail, inter-city #ffff00 yellow
bus #ff0000 red
ferry #00ffff cyan
cable car #fee0d2 ocker
gondola #ff00ff purple
funicular #ffffff white
Rendering based on an unofficial GTFS feed. There is an official one available, though it does (not yet?) include shapes.
Download: Large PNG (0.4 MB), PDF (0.12 MB)
Rendering based on the official feed by the Empresa Municipal de Transportes. (March 12, 2014)
Download: Large PNG (1.4 MB), PDF (0.4 MB)
Rendering based on the official feed by the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS). (March 12, 2014)
Download: Large PNG (0.5 MB), PDF (0.6 MB)
Rendering based on the official feed by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. (March 14, 2014)
Download: Large PNG (0.9 MB),
Rendering based on the official feed by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. (March 12, 2014)
Download: Large PNG (1 MB), PDF (1.1 MB)
Rendering based on the official feed by DC Circulator. (March 13, 2014)
Download: Large PNG (1.2 MB)
Rendering based on the official feed by the Miami Dade Transit. (March 13, 2014)
Download: Large PNG (0.3 MB), PDF (0.12 MB)
I think the visualizations look quite beautiful and have started to
compile a series of A0 posters. Click on the preview image to open
the PDF. The templates can be found in ./posters/.
Click on the images to get a larger preview.
Download and install node.js and npm.
$ git clone https://github.com/cmichi/gtfs-visualizations.git
$ cd gtfs-visualizations/
$ npm install
For help, run:
$ node render.js --help
For example:
$ time node render.js --verbose --gtfs=vilnus --poster --max-dist=20 --center=54.6824461,25.2748482
Based on the GTFS files in ./gtfs/vilnus/ this will generate:
./output/vilnus/data.lines
./output/vilnus/maxmin.lines
# contains the maximum and minimum count of trips on a shape
# in this GTFS feed
Download Processing 2.0.
Install processing-java from the Tools menu.
Then run:
processing-java --sketch=$PWD/processing --run vilnus poster
Adjust with the size argument.
See the sketch ./processing/processing.pde and search this block:
drawRoute("7", #ffffff); // funicular
drawRoute("6", #ffffff); // gondola
drawRoute("5", #ffffff); // cable car
drawRoute("4", #ffffff); // ferry
drawRoute("3", #ff0000); // bus
drawRoute("2", #ffffff); // rail, inter-city
drawRoute("1", #ffffff); // subway, metro
drawRoute("0", #0000ff); // tram
These are the default colors used. You are free to adapt them.
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The green and red color combination should be done better (persons with red/green disabilities might have problems). Use other color scheme.
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GTFS provides a field
route_color. Supporting this would be nice. Colors right now are hardcoded.
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Michael Mueller <http://micha.elmueller.net/>
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