Public Transport Viewer

Posted by austinhuang on 25 July 2018 in English. Last updated on 10 January 2019.

In this comment I mentioned that I altered the Route viewer to make it more suitable to public transit. Since it’s getting messy I decided to put everything on a separate diary entry.

Using the PTV

https://austinhuang.me/ogf-route-relations.html

The Skype and Share buttons are just there - You can adblock it if you want.

Differences from the original

No non-public transport routes - That means no highway routes, no electric lines, no ferry. Bus, Train, Tram, Light Rail, and Subway only.
Works from Zoom 8 instead of 10!
stop:1 (Or whatever number other than 1), stop_entry_only and stop_exit_only are rendered as stops instead of being ignored.
platform and platform:1 (Or whatever number other than 1) are ignored instead of being rendered.
Displays parent relations - That means you can see what lines are available at a stop/station!
Show lines of specific transport types!
Option to show 1 specific line! (Press “Reload” to restore to all lines)
More transport-specific details! (See Diary 2337)
Allow you to scroll past the antimeridian AND see the lines. (See Diary 2337)

Special tags

When you click a stop, it shows all the lines, with their background coloured by default. If you want to colour the text instead (Invert the colour), you may add ogf:invert=yes to the relation. You may want to use this feature to differentiate types of lines (Rush-hour, Express, Different frequency, etc).
You can change the width of your line by adding ogf:width=<Number> to the relation. By default, the number is 5. Floats should work.
You can change the opacity of your line by adding ogf:opacity=<Number> to the relation. By default, the number is 1. Floats should (and have to) work.

Can I improve this?

Sure, it’s on GitHub.

Discussion

Comment from FancyFoxy on 25 July 2018 at 02:47

I think it’s really cool! I made myself a very small bus line just to test it out: https://austinhuang.me/ogf-route-relations.html?map=C/17/-24.08131/24.09233

I think I’ll use this to make a transit system for my cities.

Comment from tule00 on 25 July 2018 at 11:41

Commenting just for mental reminder

Comment from austinhuang on 25 July 2018 at 15:39

I just pushed an update and now you can filter transport type!

Comment from Luciano on 25 July 2018 at 15:49

Brilliant. Thank you for this.

Comment from Leowezy on 25 July 2018 at 15:58

Very cool, thank you :)

Comment from Sarepava on 25 July 2018 at 16:18

I made some relations to show the bus routes in Kanton some years ago, but I think I need to go and modify to show stops and add line colours. https://austinhuang.me/ogf-route-relations.html?map=C/13/52.10988/110.99985

Comment from Taka on 25 July 2018 at 17:09

This is extremely cool, and’ll definitely help out my transit mapping once I get to it. It wasn’t too long ago that I last thought to check if there were many route relations that I could find. The only critique/suggestion I have is that lines colored differently will be displayed over-top each other. It would definitely be really useful if the lines were displayed next to each other. (although I do realize that isn’t quite as easily done as said).

Comment from austinhuang on 25 July 2018 at 17:33

This is not quite possible… However I did add 1 option called “Show only this line”, so:

When you click at a station and click one of the belonging lines, you’ll only see that line,
When you click at a line and click the “Show only this line”, you’ll only see that line.
Press “Reload” to restore.

Comment from wangi on 30 August 2021 at 23:33

I’ve updated the version on the server to use this: https://wiki.opengeofiction.net/util/route_relations.html

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