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A city map of bus and train stations

31 points by transportguy 4y ago

transportguy 4y ago
I wrote this up quickly after one of the HN readers here asked for a visualisation after my first article: https://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/busdistributions/index.html https://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/busdistributions/in...
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jakecopp 4y ago
Great use of OpenStreetMap data! It would also be interesting to see the distribution of `bus_stop`'s with shelter and seat (full service) verses just a pole. Maybe amenity=shelter or covered=yes - I'm unsure if they're usually on the same node or a separate node (within x many metres). In Australia there's a considerable variation of bus stop quality. There might be some interesting insights into where the minimum effort bus stops are (council/gov boundaries? transit deserts? who knows.)
- e4e5 4y ago
  Here's two maps of my city (montreal), first is all bus stops and second one is all stops with a shelter: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/826191293138599937/1086094113436340295/image.png?width=1062&height=593 https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/826191293138599937/... https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/826191293138599937/1086097601964802108/image.png?width=1080&height=593 https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/826191293138599937/...
  - e4e5 4y ago
    Actually, here's a combined one: https://imgur.com/a/QtP5YeO https://imgur.com/a/QtP5YeO Red is without shelter, black is with.
iso8859-1 4y ago
Does OSM also store information about lines? When I click a station in Google Maps, it sometimes shows colored lines.
- e4e5 4y ago
  I just quickly looked at it, and bus stops seem to have a tag with the line, might be spotty though
  - Symbiote 4y ago
    Try https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.5171/-0.1266&layers=T https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.5171/-0.1266&layers... (There are several layers to choose from.)
e4e5 4y ago
Thank you for this! I just made my own map for my own city in like 5 minutes, pretty cool to see
- transportguy 4y ago
  Awesome! I'd love to see them - send me some screenshots :) https://twitter.com/MichalYouDoing https://twitter.com/MichalYouDoing
dagurp 4y ago
The London tube very often follows the roads because in the early days they believed they had to and they could pay less to property owners. https://youtu.be/4QQQ3NXxS38 https://youtu.be/4QQQ3NXxS38
BerislavLopac 4y ago
It reminded me of this fascinating map: https://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-tram-london/ https://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-tram-london/
oigursh 4y ago
Do you just paste? node["highway"="bus_stop"]({{bbox}}); It does nothing on my city.
- habi 4y ago
  Use the 'Wizard' on https://overpass-turbo.eu/ https://overpass-turbo.eu/, paste "highway=bus_stop in $YourCity" and click 'Build and run query'. This obviously only works if there are mapped bus stops in $YourCity in OpenStreetMap.

31 points by transportguy 4y ago

I wrote this up quickly after one of the HN readers here asked for a visualisation after my first article: https://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/busdistributions/index.html https://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/busdistributions/in...

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jakecopp 4y ago

Great use of OpenStreetMap data! It would also be interesting to see the distribution of `bus_stop`'s with shelter and seat (full service) verses just a pole. Maybe amenity=shelter or covered=yes - I'm unsure if they're usually on the same node or a separate node (within x many metres). In Australia there's a considerable variation of bus stop quality. There might be some interesting insights into where the minimum effort bus stops are (council/gov boundaries? transit deserts? who knows.)

e4e5 4y ago
Here's two maps of my city (montreal), first is all bus stops and second one is all stops with a shelter: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/826191293138599937/1086094113436340295/image.png?width=1062&height=593 https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/826191293138599937/... https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/826191293138599937/1086097601964802108/image.png?width=1080&height=593 https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/826191293138599937/...
- e4e5 4y ago
  Actually, here's a combined one: https://imgur.com/a/QtP5YeO https://imgur.com/a/QtP5YeO Red is without shelter, black is with.

iso8859-1 4y ago

Does OSM also store information about lines? When I click a station in Google Maps, it sometimes shows colored lines.

e4e5 4y ago
I just quickly looked at it, and bus stops seem to have a tag with the line, might be spotty though
- Symbiote 4y ago
  Try https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.5171/-0.1266&layers=T https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.5171/-0.1266&layers... (There are several layers to choose from.)

e4e5 4y ago

Thank you for this! I just made my own map for my own city in like 5 minutes, pretty cool to see

transportguy 4y ago
Awesome! I'd love to see them - send me some screenshots :) https://twitter.com/MichalYouDoing https://twitter.com/MichalYouDoing

dagurp 4y ago

The London tube very often follows the roads because in the early days they believed they had to and they could pay less to property owners. https://youtu.be/4QQQ3NXxS38 https://youtu.be/4QQQ3NXxS38

BerislavLopac 4y ago

It reminded me of this fascinating map: https://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-tram-london/ https://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-tram-london/

oigursh 4y ago

Do you just paste? node["highway"="bus_stop"]({{bbox}}); It does nothing on my city.

habi 4y ago
Use the 'Wizard' on https://overpass-turbo.eu/ https://overpass-turbo.eu/, paste "highway=bus_stop in $YourCity" and click 'Build and run query'. This obviously only works if there are mapped bus stops in $YourCity in OpenStreetMap.