hkbus / route-waypoints

Crawling route waypoints for HK bus routes

HK Bus WayPoints Crawling

This project is to fetch the waypoints from CSDI. It is daily synced to the sources and launched in gh-pages.

During the crawling, it will minified the result by truncating to 5 decimal places, (i.e., ±1m), and minified the json by cleaning useless space characters. Also, as the data is provided statically by gh-pages, the data transfer supports Content-Encoding: gzip for largely preserving your bandwidth.

Links are in format:

• MTR: https://hkbus.github.io/route-waypoints/{LINE_CODE}.json
• LRT: https://hkbus.github.io/route-waypoints/{LINE_NUMBER}-{[O|I]}.json
• Ferry: https://hkbus.github.io/route-waypoints/{ROUTE_ID}.json
• Everything else: https://hkbus.github.io/route-waypoints/{GTFS_ID}-{[O|I]}.json

Example link: (https://hkbus.github.io/route-waypoints/1001-O.json)

Crawling by yourself

Usage

Daily fetched GeoJSONs are in gh-pages.

Installation

To install the dependencies,

pip install -r ./crawling/requirements.txt

Data Fetching

To fetch data, run the followings,

python ./waypoints.py

Citing

Please kindly state you are using this app as HK Bus Crawling@2021, https://github.com/hkbus/route-waypoints

Contributors

ChunLaw chakflying