Comments on: TriMet embraces open source with 'Open Trip Planner' http://bikeportland.org/2010/07/21/trimet-embraces-open-source-with-open-trip-planner-36724 Portland Oregon bicycle news, events, culture, travel and opinion. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:54:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Fernando http://bikeportland.org/2010/07/21/trimet-embraces-open-source-with-open-trip-planner-36724#comment-1614152 Fernando Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:57:47 +0000 http://bikeportland.org/?p=36724#comment-1614152 I'd like to point out that there is a similar ongoing project in the Twin Cities. <a href="http://cyclopath.org" rel="nofollow">lCyclopath</a> does great bike directions (i.e., doesn't "route you down main streets"), is open source, and is working on soon being multi-modal too! It lets users do a lot of tweaking in order to get custom routes based on distance, bikeability, and other preferences. Oh, and the road network itself is editable too! I'd like to point out that there is a similar ongoing project in the Twin Cities. lCyclopath does great bike directions (i.e., doesn't "route you down main streets"), is open source, and is working on soon being multi-modal too! It lets users do a lot of tweaking in order to get custom routes based on distance, bikeability, and other preferences. Oh, and the road network itself is editable too!

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]]> By: Red Five http://bikeportland.org/2010/07/21/trimet-embraces-open-source-with-open-trip-planner-36724#comment-1595444 Red Five Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:53:35 +0000 http://bikeportland.org/?p=36724#comment-1595444 Hopefully it will tell me where the deadly Tri-met drivers are. Hopefully it will tell me where the deadly Tri-met drivers are.

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]]> By: Paul Johnson http://bikeportland.org/2010/07/21/trimet-embraces-open-source-with-open-trip-planner-36724#comment-1594446 Paul Johnson Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:22:26 +0000 http://bikeportland.org/?p=36724#comment-1594446 Sweet! Always good to see OpenStreetMap in the news, and I'm glad TriMet finally came around to using it. I encourage folks to report bugs with the map data on http://www.openstreetbugs.org/ or if you're a GIS nerd, fix it directly on http://osm.org/ Sweet! Always good to see OpenStreetMap in the news, and I'm glad TriMet finally came around to using it. I encourage folks to report bugs with the map data on http://www.openstreetbugs.org/ or if you're a GIS nerd, fix it directly on http://osm.org/

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]]> By: Lance P. http://bikeportland.org/2010/07/21/trimet-embraces-open-source-with-open-trip-planner-36724#comment-1594293 Lance P. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:14:05 +0000 http://bikeportland.org/?p=36724#comment-1594293 Funny, when you cross over the river, they elevation chart goes down to the water. It also has me making turns off the bridge jumping 40ish feet down onto Interstate. That would be one scary turn! Funny, when you cross over the river, they elevation chart goes down to the water. It also has me making turns off the bridge jumping 40ish feet down onto Interstate. That would be one scary turn!

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]]> By: 151 http://bikeportland.org/2010/07/21/trimet-embraces-open-source-with-open-trip-planner-36724#comment-1593702 151 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:13:40 +0000 http://bikeportland.org/?p=36724#comment-1593702 Awesome idea, and it's even better to see open source development principles taking what could be a pioneering role here. It's always great to see ideas blossom and take on a life of their own as other people modify them to suit their needs. Awesome idea, and it's even better to see open source development principles taking what could be a pioneering role here. It's always great to see ideas blossom and take on a life of their own as other people modify them to suit their needs.

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]]> By: Anne Hawley http://bikeportland.org/2010/07/21/trimet-embraces-open-source-with-open-trip-planner-36724#comment-1593588 Anne Hawley Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:15:02 +0000 http://bikeportland.org/?p=36724#comment-1593588 One more reason to make the jump to an always-online smartphone, something I've been putting off for a couple of years. This is very exciting stuff. One more reason to make the jump to an always-online smartphone, something I've been putting off for a couple of years.

This is very exciting stuff.

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]]> By: David Turner http://bikeportland.org/2010/07/21/trimet-embraces-open-source-with-open-trip-planner-36724#comment-1593561 David Turner Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:47:01 +0000 http://bikeportland.org/?p=36724#comment-1593561 Hi! I'm a developer on OTP. Thanks everyone for the bug reports. As people have noticed, the bike safety routing doesn't really work on TriMet's demo. I don't know what settings the demo has set for where bike lanes are, so I can't debug that piece of it right now. Paulie, Spiffy, what version of Firefox are you running? To find your version, click "Help", then "About Mozilla Firefox". Are you running on Windows or on a Mac (I assume not on GNU/Linux, since I don't see the bug)? We would really love to fix that, because it sounds like an unpleasant bug (even if we don't expect it to come up much once we have fields where you can type your start and destination). Hi! I'm a developer on OTP. Thanks everyone for the bug reports. As people have noticed, the bike safety routing doesn't really work on TriMet's demo. I don't know what settings the demo has set for where bike lanes are, so I can't debug that piece of it right now.

Paulie, Spiffy, what version of Firefox are you running? To find your version, click "Help", then "About Mozilla Firefox". Are you running on Windows or on a Mac (I assume not on GNU/Linux, since I don't see the bug)?

We would really love to fix that, because it sounds like an unpleasant bug (even if we don't expect it to come up much once we have fields where you can type your start and destination).

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]]> By: Spiffy http://bikeportland.org/2010/07/21/trimet-embraces-open-source-with-open-trip-planner-36724#comment-1593540 Spiffy Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:20:17 +0000 http://bikeportland.org/?p=36724#comment-1593540 Mike #11, thanks, I thought those were all smartphone apps so I never even bothered looking there... pdxt seems to work nicely... Paulie #7 & #12, it works in my firefox... it's annoying that it opens the context menu over the top of the start/end point menu so what I did was just clicked up on the toolbars to make the context menu go away and then I was able to get to the selection menu... but I agree that it's a bad way to make an interface... I tested the route I take to work and it told me to do the same thing I already do... max to mall, bike from there to work... which is 15 minutes faster than waiting at the mall for the bus... I told it to do transit and bike... when I told it to take me to 39th/hawthorne is had me go down foster using the quickest route AND safest route... so yeah it needs some tweaking... but the idea is neat... Mike #11, thanks, I thought those were all smartphone apps so I never even bothered looking there... pdxt seems to work nicely...

Paulie #7 & #12, it works in my firefox... it's annoying that it opens the context menu over the top of the start/end point menu so what I did was just clicked up on the toolbars to make the context menu go away and then I was able to get to the selection menu... but I agree that it's a bad way to make an interface...

I tested the route I take to work and it told me to do the same thing I already do... max to mall, bike from there to work... which is 15 minutes faster than waiting at the mall for the bus... I told it to do transit and bike...

when I told it to take me to 39th/hawthorne is had me go down foster using the quickest route AND safest route... so yeah it needs some tweaking...

but the idea is neat...

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]]> By: Allan http://bikeportland.org/2010/07/21/trimet-embraces-open-source-with-open-trip-planner-36724#comment-1593477 Allan Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:42:32 +0000 http://bikeportland.org/?p=36724#comment-1593477 Paulie- I agree noone would bike on Powell west of 205 during rush hour... sunday afternoons work fine though :) Paulie- I agree noone would bike on Powell west of 205 during rush hour... sunday afternoons work fine though :)

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]]> By: Jessica Roberts http://bikeportland.org/2010/07/21/trimet-embraces-open-source-with-open-trip-planner-36724#comment-1593474 Jessica Roberts Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:33:18 +0000 http://bikeportland.org/?p=36724#comment-1593474 I heard a presentation at Metro about this last week and they said they were in no way ready for the general public to start testing the actual route recommendations - a proper public beta test won't be ready until next spring. So, I'm not surprised you're all getting results you don't like. I heard a presentation at Metro about this last week and they said they were in no way ready for the general public to start testing the actual route recommendations - a proper public beta test won't be ready until next spring. So, I'm not surprised you're all getting results you don't like.

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