Burma Railways Route Planner

[Mark_Lester]

I am a software engineer and I am building open source / open data routee tinding systems for places like Bangladesh and Burma and anywhere else that's "off the map". ("open source / open data" means the software if free, you can install it yourself if you wish, and so is the data, you can put it on your own site if you wish).

I have built a "GTFS edutor". GTFS is Google's standard for a timetable data interchange. i.e it's how you have to make up your data in order that Google, and others, can put it on their own route finders.

I am looking for people to help me develop the data I have so far for Burma (and Bangladesh for that matter). I have gleamed what I can off the few websites that have any timetable data.
You can see that here
http://gee.chalo.org.uk:9080/Gee/Eric.html?databaseName=burma

and you can see what that looks like in a route planner here
http://gee.chalo.org.uk/index.html

This is a first cut, and the editor is very much under development. I dont have any intermediate stops on any of the services right now, so if you try and use this for anything that really requires a connection that's not at a service's termination point it's going to give some pretty silly resuilts. I show it here now just so you can see that there really is an end point to all this.

If you are interested, or have a special interest in Burma or anywhere else off he edge of the known world, or have any data on railways or other transit providers such as ferries (buses are going to have to be tackled in the field next Fenruary), please get in touch.

 

[dutchflyer]

THis link takes so long to get in, I stopped.
The only (likely best reliable) general source is currently the data on seat61- have you looked there?

 

[Mark_Lester]

Hi,
Thanks for at least hitting the link. I dont really understand why both of those arent working for you, they are from elsewhere outside my network, but I'll work it out.

I am of course very aware of mark smith and his fountain of knowledge. Indeed any data he has I have captured. What I am trying to do here is get a publicly editable timetable airborne. There were, round about 2010, a series of "transiki" and "wiki-timetable" project stubs published from people who were "very excited to be involved". Unfortunately, as is so often the case with software projects, nobody on the team was either capabale or willing to actually go and build a potlatch kind of thing (the OSM editor).
What I have is a start in that direction. It will doubtless need a lot of re-engineering, probably completely, but I esentially have the infrastructre now to enable a group to collaboratively compile and edit a timetable, without having to pay anyone anything.
All I need right now is some beta testing. if you cant even fetch the page that's not helping.
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Those should be working.
Please try them again

 

[Mark_Lester]

I've done the same for Sri Lanka
http://gee,chalo.org.uk/index.html
This is based on the data avaliable from eservices.railway,gov.lk , i.e it's incomplete.
The data is editable via a system I have built called Gee which you can see here
http://gee.chalo.org.uk:9080/Gee/Eric.html?databaseName=lanka
I also have data sets for Myanmar
http://gee.chalo.org.uk:9080/Gee/Eric.html?databaseName=burma
and Bangladesh
http://gee.chalo.org.uk:9080/Gee/Eric.html?databaseName=gtfs
I have deleted any erroneous data, of which there was of course plenty for Sri Lanka, but there are plenty of train, including the bus trains from Medawachchiya and even the trains up to Jaffna which are missing from the government web site.

If nothing else, I've discovered thay all three countries have shed loads of weird trains you can do, including bus trains in the north west (no, not like the metrolink).