Large-Scale Generation of Transit Maps from OpenStreetMap Data

Online demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de&#x2F;global" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de&#x2F;global</a>

I was kinda expecting a reference to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.transitapp.com&#x2F;how-we-built-the-worlds-prettiest-auto-generated-transit-maps-12d0c6fa502f&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.transitapp.com&#x2F;how-we-built-the-worlds-pretties...</a> but I didn&#x27;t find any while skimming it, even though the content seems to be very similar

Download link for the PDF: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tandfonline.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;10.1080&#x2F;00087041.2024.2325761?download=true" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tandfonline.com&#x2F;doi&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;10.1080&#x2F;00087041.2024.23...</a><p>Such a great piece of work, very interesting.

This is really cool. I&#x27;m fairly impressed with the maps of the London underground, although there are some oddities in Octilinear mode. It&#x27;s also missing quite a few Overground services.<p>It&#x27;s really nice to be able to switch seamlessly between a Geographic, Octilinear and Geo-Octilinear view of the maps, because each of them tells you something useful. I would use this if TFL added it to their maps app.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de&#x2F;global#subway-lightrail&#x2F;octi&#x2F;13&#x2F;51.50219844587788&#x2F;-0.1296043395996094" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de&#x2F;global#subway-lightrail&#x2F;octi...</a>

This is really cool, but I wonder why the UK rail (commuter or long distance) network isn&#x27;t shown very completely. There are _lots_ more trains around Birmingham or up north that don&#x27;t get displayed. Even the network in the SE is very partial. Is this data really not in OSM?

What&#x27;s novel&#x2F;interesting about this? Speaking as an ignorant outsider, it seems like they&#x27;re &#x27;just&#x27; querying existing data and plotting it. Obviously this is a gross simplification, but I&#x27;d be really interested to hear what&#x27;s hard about this problem.

It seems like it&#x27;s missing most of Tokyo?<p>Granted, Tokyo has a blended commuter &#x2F; subway through-service system (eg, Fukutoshin-line trains continue into the Toyoko-line), but those trains don&#x27;t seem to show up in either Rail or Subway views.

This is really excellent work! It does seem to be missing commuter train&#x2F;rail systems in Canada, such as the GO Train system in Ontario.

This work is so impressive

Amazing stuff at so many levels.<p>Would live to hear more about the motivation for using RDF&#x2F;SPARQL in the technology stack as these are frequently seen as arcane and here is a very intuitive use case.

Very cool, I&#x27;ve been working on getting Qlever setup and using it as my main triple store. Was excited to see this hit my feed

How Exciting project! How come there are no lines in Hanover, for example?