Visit at CommuteMaps.com
This web app creates public transport travel time maps for some of the biggest cities in the world. It features different modes that allow finding most convenient meeting spots or visualizing public transport commute times. As a map print, these can also serve as a stylish art poster wall decor.
This is a vanilla create-react-app web app fully typed with typescript. There is no backend, all data is loaded and processed in the browser.
If you're interested in contributing, please feel free to open a pull request.
Step 1: Make sure you have yarn installed.
Step 2: From a fresh checkout:
Step 3: Running:
This product has been inspired by isochronous travel map services such as mapnificent.net (by Stefan Wehrmeyer) and now defunct mapumental.com (a mySociety project).
The copyright owners of the currently used data are listed where appropriate.
The project depends on a number of open source sofware packages, most notably:
- mapnificent_cities - An open source repository of public transport travel times for a large number of cities. If you want your city added to Commute Maps website please follow the instructions on the official github repository linked above.
- React and related projects - User interface and state management logic.
- Leaflet and React Leaflet - Map visualisation.
- Material UI - UI components.
- Developer - Martin Marinov - other projects
- Design - Snezhana Marinova
This is an art project and should be regarded as such. The data used has been generated automatically using simple heuristics which may approximate but do not accurately reflect real world travel times.
The service and product comes with no warranties and may not be deemed to be fit for any purpose. The user agrees that the service is provided "as is" and "as available" without any warranty of any kind. The user agrees that the developer or site owner shall not be held accountable for any liabilities, fines or proceedings resulting of usage of this service.