Christin Gasser
Christian Gasser
Engineer ETH, Automatician EFZ, web technologies enthousiast and bike traveller who likes to discover new horizons

Where Does Your Public Transit Go? Visualizing Routes and Metadata.

In my free time, I worked on a personal project to visualize the routes of public transit lines maps. My goal was to create an easy and convenient way to see where a transit line is going through. Searching the web for geographical maps can be laborious, so I used the Openstreetmap dataset, which contains the geographic route of a given transit line along with related metadata such as line number, destination, network and operator.

To get started, I requested a dataset using a specific request language and coded a website layout for visualizing them. The layout was designed to make it convenient to see the metadata and was accompagned by a map for the route and stops. I used a template generator to create different HTML pages to display the information for each transit line.

Finally, I published my work on a hidden internet address so that I could access the website anytime from my pocket. Overall, this project was an enjoyable way to explore my interests and create a useful tool for visualizing public transit routes on a map.