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jeudi 11 février 2010

OSMTransport 1.0 release

The 3Liz team is proud to annonce the 1.0 version publication of our application OSMTransport.

OSMTransport is a public transport network visualisation application describe in OpenStreetMap.

Barcelona public transport network in OpenStreetMap via OSMTransport

Compared to earlier publications, this version provides the following features:

  • world coverage : possibility to add "locations" (areas corresponding to a city on which you want to view network) in every country in the world. If a country is not in the combo box "Add a new location", thank you for the request and we will add it.
  • new design : map adapted to the screen size, quick access buttons to a transportation theme in the upper left, new look (pop-up, color, combo box, icons, etc..)
  • OpenStreetMap relations management used to define lines. Thus we can determine all the lines belongs to a bus, tram or subway stop and display it in the pop-up consultation.

Passeig de Gracia station in OpenStreetMap via OSMTransport

Take advantage of this tool to complete your city public transport network.

samedi 7 novembre 2009

FOSS4G Japan 2009

The very active OSGeo Japanese local chapter has organised FOSS4G Tokyo 2009 and FOSS4G Osaka 2009 this week in Japan. The Tokyo conference is now over (november 1st and 2nd), where interesting talks were given such as :

The conference is now moving to Osaka for a second round of presentations and discussions around the wonderful world of free and open source software for geospatial !

Enjoy the molamola movie !

vendredi 23 octobre 2009

With Geolocater, say "Where I Am" in Firefox

Just after the EuMozCamp09 HTML5 Roundtable, I've proposed to Vladimir Vukićević the idea to add the possibility to say "Where I Am" in Firefox. He said that this functionnality it's more suitable as an add-on.

During this conversation, I've thought that the Firefox user should be able to choose his geolocation directly in the notification. It's what I've done.

Choose your geolocation in the notification

Yesterday, Gervase Markham proposed to add "Where I Am" in Firefox with a feature in the geolocation info bar "Find Myself On A Map", and when I read it, I said to myself: "It's What I Done With My Add-On: Geolocater, Isn't it ?"

The geolocation selected in Geolocater is used for the Firefox Geolocation

Besides, Gervase asks this question : Would you like to see "Where I Am" directly implemented in Firefox 3.7 ?

mardi 20 octobre 2009

Geolocater: See photos of your geolocations

The Geolocation API is fairly well implemented by the different browsers on the market. The problem is that it's perceived as only useful on mobile. This perception is due to the fact that the Geolocation API is presented as a means to indicate to a web application where we are, but this information is provided by the browser, it is therefore possible to allow a user to decide where he wants to be geolocated when he is on the Internet. Geolocater offers users to choose the way to be geolocated when a Web application requests it.

The interest you can save locations to choose which geolocation use when an application requests it and facilitate the use of location-based information.

To highlight the importance of being able to choose your position on earth when you're on the Web, I made a video demonstration with Flickr. The Flickr mapping application is equipped with a 'Find my location' button. This button launches a geolocation request to the browser. As mentioned in the specification of the Geolocation API, the browser must notify the request, unless you have specified that you no longer wanted notification. If you have installed Geolocater and you have not disabled notification for Flickr, you can select the geolocation you want to send to Flickr to find photos nearby. You can easily navigate through the world and discover images from around the world.

dimanche 27 septembre 2009

OsmTransport: Some network in China

Hong-Kong:

Shangai:

OsmTransport: Cercanías

In OsmTransport, you can view some Cercanías.

Barcelona:
Cercanías Barcelona

Madrid:
Cercanías Madrid

Valencia:
Cercanías Valencia

jeudi 17 septembre 2009

OsmTransport: Some network in Europe

Last post on public transport network available in OpenStreetMap and visible in OsmTransport.

London subway network:

London subway network

Zürich tramway and S-bahn network:

Zürich tramway and S-bahn network

Amsterdam tramway and subway network:

Amsterdam tramway and subway network

Brussel tramway and subway network:

Brussel tramway and subway network

Praha tramway and subway network:

Praha tramway and subway network

Vienna subway network:

Vienna subway network

OsmTransport: Some network in France

Third post on public transport network available in OpenStreetMap and visible in OsmTransport.

Paris tramway, subway, rer and transilien network:

Paris transilien, rer, subway and tramway network

Grenoble bus and tramway network:

Grenoble tramway and bus network

OsmTransport: Some network in Spain

Second post on public transport network available in OpenStreetMap and visible in OsmTransport.

Madrid subway and cercanías network:

Madrid subway and cercanías network

Barcelona tramway and subway network:

Barcelona tramway and subway network

Valencia tranway and subway network:

Valencia tranway and subway network

OsmTransport: Some network in Germany

First post to present some public transport network available in OpenStreetMap and visible in OsmTransport

Berlin tramway, subway and S-Bahn network:

Berlin tramway, subway and S-Bahn network

Leipzig tramway network:

Leipzig tramway network

Göttingen bus network:

Göttingen bus network

vendredi 4 septembre 2009

Geolocater: first screencast

Geolocater Mozilla Firefox addon first demonstration :

mardi 1 septembre 2009

Geolocater: geolocate you where you want!

One of the major improvements Firefox 3.5 is support for W3C Geolocation API. This API allows web applications to request the browser geolocation which offers the possibility of geographically contextualize the content.

By default the geolocation is provided by a Google service. The results vary depending on the OS you are using and where you are. But especially since the geolocation becomes a navigation context why not be able to choose it easily? But Firefox is hackable, Geolocater is born.

Geolocater gives you the possibility to edit your default geolocation. You don't have to know the latitude and longitude, Geolocater give you the possibility to find a place or drag the geolocation over a map.
Geolocater gives you the possibility to define more than one geolocation and to jump from one geolocation from another easily.
With Geolocater, you can define a geolocation more accurate than that provided by the Google Service, or a place where you were or where you go.

Geolocate you where you want!

Screencast

mercredi 22 juillet 2009

Follow OsmTransport on Identi.ca

From now on you can follow the evolution of OsmTransport on Identi.ca.

Identi.ca is a Micro-blogging application like Twitter, but it's based on the Open Source software Laconi.ca.

We will distribute through this channel short but interesting informations on OsmTransport changes. We will continue on this blog to keep you informed of significant developments or thinkings.

OsmTransport 0.2 : it's nice a network with colors

Réseau de transport publique de Lausanne

The public transport network in the city of Lausanne is probably the most complete in Europe in OpenStreetMap. It is also more colorful. And I find that a transport network with color is quite nice!

In some countries like Germany, the networks are fairly well defined, but generally without colors. It's a pity because without color, all lines are similar and blend together without distinction. For exemple :

But some cities are completely devoid of transport network in OpenStreetMap, like :

samedi 13 juin 2009

geolocation with open street maps

For the mozilla 35 days project, I created a demo which used Geolocation with open source software and open data from various projects. Article on hacks.mozilla.org

Three days ago we had a post from Doug Turner describing how Geolocation works in Firefox 3.5. I have taken the geolocation functionality in Firefox 3.5 and blended it together with data from OpenStreetMap and a few other sources of free data. You can try the demo below. Don’t forget to click the Share Location button in the drop down when it appears on the site.

Launch the Demo in Firefox 3.5

Assuming that it was able to find your location, you should see where you are with a red marker. A blue circle surrounds the red marker indicating the accuracy of your location information. Note that since this information is based on a combination of your IP address and possibly local WiFi access points, its accuracy can vary.

This demo also tries to pull in information from other sources about your local area. Each set of information is shown as a layer. These layers are:

  • The base layer is the map itself, provided by OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is a project to create and provide free geographic data, such as street maps, to anyone who wants them. Much like Wikipedia, it’s possible for anyone to edit the maps and add their own information.
  • The next layer is based on articles in Wikipedia. In some articles, like Mountain View or Montpellier, you can find coordinates. GeoNames provides a web service to query Wikipedia’s articles by location. With this demo you can discover Wikipedia articles about things and places around you.
  • The last layer is based on GeoNames. GeoNames is a geographical database covering all countries and contains over eight million placenames. In this demo you can see things from the GeoNames database like cities, villages, lakes, parks, or even hotels.

The map and layers are built using OpenLayers, a free JavaScript library that you can use to put a dynamic map on any web page.

Resources

We’ve also included a couple more screenshots of places that have data already loaded.