Dublin Bus and Google Maps Project

Well admittedly the primary aim of this project was to produce a map with the DB routes plotted on it that a user could select at will. It wasn't to be a library of KML files.

Having said that, I'm sure it's possible to be able to provide the data to anyone at a later stage, but that would be a secondary aim.

And if people attach their KML files here, then they are freely available to anyone who needs them, in much the same fashion as yours are.

I read your op again and it doesn't mention that at all, it mentions doing a collaborative project on mymaps, I don't mean to be disagreeable, but it was only when markpb came along was their suggestion of having to make an api, and now hes talking about password protection?

to produce a map with the DB routes plotted on it that a user could select at will

this can be done on googleearths and googlemaps

I thought the idea was to get the most people involved via the easy to use mymaps etc which is why you would post to things on google community/make them public to attract irish map makers, attaching txt files here creates a couple of steps to view it as a kmz as opposed to instantly on google bbs so people can see what were tying to do and join in otherwise it will never get finished.

markpb wrote:

I'm happy to go along with whatever you guys decide and re-map my routes if needs be.

At the moment though, I don't see how you want your idea to work. If we all use Google My Maps to map out whatever routes we know, we'll end up with a mismash of different routes on different people's accounts and no way to merge them all. If I map the 17A and you map the 41, there's no way to show those two together and see where they join. It's be great as a project because it's easy to get involved but almost useless when it's done.

I think this is just confusion I might have added to it,

the suggestion was people could use mymaps to make the maps then save the kml to be put together elsewhere by someone with the licence, which is why irlrobin first posted, as I was trying to figure out above mymaps isn't good for putting them altogether and I wasn't suggesting that in my previous post, but you can do that in googleearth (or simply c+p the coords from the files) and make them available for people to download them off the google community and they can all viewable and clickable in googlearth and googlemaps (and mymaps). Im asking why only allow it be viewed on a web page behind an api and not on all 3 the api, googleearth and googlemaps.

daymobrew wrote:

I was just told about DublinCityBus.com.
It has a reasonable number of routes already listed and has a facility to add more.
I don't know who owns the site (registered to someone with a French email address).

oh where'd you find out about that?

time to write him a nice email to see if he wants to share his work, ah googling him you can see its part of DCU project

wow ability to add routes aswell quite clever

he has 33 routes I think, I wonder when he did it, it was just entered into the 2007 DCU MPS Hyperion awards I see via spoiltchild so it must been recent enough, he has the luas aswell, I know that luas and dart and train were done ages ago I have the file but I can't find the link to it. the fille was named dublin_transport.kmz Im going to put it up again under the temp category it was done in 2005 I think so I dont know why it hasn't been incorporated into googleearth's layer.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=experiment&Number=874967

hey, I'm working on a college project making a website that will show the locations of buses on a map. I have a full website pretty much working using google maps but the main bit of the project is to make a site thats accessible by mobile phones so ppl can use it anywhere...
Just wondering what ye think of the idea of being able to view live locations of the buses from your mobile phone?

When my project is over i'll give ye a hand if i can!

(GPS coordinates of the buses are simulated for now of course.)

he done routes


1
10
103
11
114
11a
11b
120
121
122
123
13
130
13a
15
15a
15c
16
17
172
17a
19
19a
201
237
25a
31
37
39
42b
46a
49
50
59
65
66
65a
69
7
746
75
77a
90
92

I tried to do route 2 even though I don't know it, most of the routes I know are done, I submitted it and its uder review, see what response It'll get.

the dublincitybus has been updated and changed to http://mkmap.com/dublin
seems to have done alot of work on the making this a complete solution, eirepremuer describes it as startup has he gone into business?


it doesn't seem to have more then 35 bus routes but again it expects people to get off their ass and add more, still I think not sharing the routes will discourage poeple from getting involved...