[maps.soton] Re: Updates (and bus routes stuff)

[Christopher Gutteridge]

I've deployed the version with the changes we made last week (popups 
rather than modal for buildings)

What do the timeout changes impact?

(I'm wondering if we should try to get the phone to cache some of the 
content for speed?)



On 20/09/2014 12:22, Christopher Baines wrote:
> I have now made some updates (see [1]).
>
> In summary:
>   - This includes all the changes that Chris Gutteridge made last week
>   - Updated leaflet-soton
>     - Tweak the data fetch timeout, and delay
>   - Improved the About Modal
>     - Removed the libraries section
>     - Simplified the data section
>     - Added a contributors section
>
> Also, I have begun integrating some bus routes stuff. I previously wrote
> an example for leaflet-soton [2], that displayed the bus routes. I have
> adapted the code for that and added another sidebar. You can see this
> branch here [3].
>
> I am unsure if the busroutes branch is ready to be published, it is not
> very polished, and I think there is a problem with using the bus routes
> in the standard Android browser, as the clickable area expands when you
> select a route (what percentage of users this would affect is unclear to
> me).
>
> The bus related data it presents could also do with some checking, I
> have found some bus stops with names that differ from bus.soton, and I
> have still not figured out quite how to display the U1C routes.
> Currently it just displays the longest route (U1C from Eastleigh),
> mostly because this seemed _least_ wrong to me, but this differs from
> everything else.
>
> The other sources:
>
> http://www.unilinkbus.co.uk/service.shtml?serviceid=1281
> Does not show the U1C from Eastleigh, or from around Wessex Lane.
>
> http://www.buscms.com/BlueStar/uploadedfiles/pdfs/unilink2014/Unilink_detailed-network-map_Sep2014.pdf
> Does not indicate that the U1C can start from around Wessex Lane. Does
> indicate that something happens past Airport Parkway.
>
> 1: git://git.cbaines.net/maps.southampton.ac.uk
> 2: http://cbaines.net/sum/bus.html
> 3: http://cbaines.net/maps.southampton.ac.uk/
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