chuuchuuMar 28
šŸ„–Working on a thing. Are there any other cities that require you to cross town to take your next train? Iā€™m ignoring London for now.
Show threadStefan LindbohmMar 28

@chuuchuu Milan, Budapest, Madrid. Sometimes Lyon, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Copenhagen, Warsaw.

Nice looking feature! :)

Show threadOliver BlanthornMar 28

@stefanlindbohm you missed Glasgow, Manchester and the heaving metropolis of Bradford

i guess if you're being cheeky you could add Lille and Birmingham

Show threadStefan LindbohmMar 28

@bovine3dom They said no London so I assumed no UK :). But yes!

(I also have some work of my own on these stations in the UK, even though Iā€™ve caught up on some UK stuff recently.)

Show threadOliver BlanthornMar 28
@stefanlindbohm ah yes the crucial transfer between Portsmouth and Southsea station and Southsea Hoverport
Show threadStefan LindbohmMar 28
@bovine3dom You know I prioritise the most important use cases!
Show threadStefan LindbohmMar 28
@bovine3dom Hereā€™s another very important feature: the ropeway icon for exactly one service that is included in international timetables :D
Show threadOliver BlanthornMar 28

@stefanlindbohm ah but there's loads of them in GTFS

you're just doing future proofing :)

Show threadStefan LindbohmMar 28

@bovine3dom Iā€™m actually missing the gondolas across Switzerland to mountain towns that are considered public transport, like Le Chable -> Verbier. Would help A LOT for skiers who donā€™t know they should search Le Chable to go to Verbier etc.

Do you have other examples that would help long distance journeys?

Show threadOliver Blanthorn

@stefanlindbohm can't you ingest all the GTFS and exclude the one you know you already have?

seems easier than having to work out what's important

off the top of my head there's the new cable car in Paris and also one in Brest

not cable cars but Italy is riddled with funiculars

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Show threadStefan LindbohmMar 28

@bovine3dom I have some plans for a better import/filter/integration tool for timetable data. Right now weā€™re a bit limited but the idea is to do what you say. Hopefully the tool itself can be open source so we can all use and add to it!

Funiculars we have a few in some places, but the icon library we use didnā€™t have a fitting icon so theyā€™re still just trains.

I guess the issue with gondolas is they donā€™t really have a timetable, so need to be modeled as ā€footpathsā€, which is often missing.

Show threadCycling on RailsMar 29
@stefanlindbohm @bovine3dom There's also the difference between gondolas (a continuous stream of vehicles) and cable-cars/funiculars (a single pair of vehicles that take anywhere between 5-20 minutes for a rotation, which may or may not be following a schedule coordinated with the valley train/bus).
Show threadStefan LindbohmMar 29

@cycling_on_rails Do you know of cable cars that are public transport and not timetabled? Timetables are easy, and gondolas with a fixed travel time should be easy enough, but I assumed all relevant cable cars would have a timetable. Otherwise weā€™d have to support displaying variable travel time or something, depending on your luck with timing šŸ˜…

@bovine3dom

Show threadCycling on RailsMar 29
@stefanlindbohm @bovine3dom Define public transport? Pretty much any cable I know even in ski resorts has a pedestrian mode, although that usually leads to an isolated mountain peak/restaurant, so you'd count that as "touristic", is that what you mean?
Show threadCycling on RailsMar 29
@stefanlindbohm @bovine3dom But yeah generally speaking cable cars have a timetable in theory, but easily run in continuous mode in practice if demand exceeds the baseline throughput. Not that it matters that much for long-distance travel I think.
Show threadStefan LindbohmMar 29

@cycling_on_rails I was thinking of those that go to a place youā€™d have as a long-distance travel destination, letā€™s say anywhere with more than one hotel. But yeah, this is getting very niche. I just like to present it nicely if the data exists and itā€™s not too much work :)

@bovine3dom