Inspiration

Sometimes it seems that Berlin's metro and trains break when they're hit by a snowflake. But which bus is taking you to your destination? And how long will it take to get you there? How often will you have to change?

What it does

VeeBiBi shows you bus routes on a map

How I built it

In 2013 we imported Berlin's transit information by their freshly opened GTFS data set and put it into some MongoDB data source. Then we drew bus lines and their stops as overlays.

Challenges I ran into

Some bus lines are parted on certain schedules, heading for different directions. We had to merge them together intelligently somehow.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Migrating the rather tabular GTFS data set into Mongo and asking the right questions. The frontend is rather f..ked though.

What I learned

Mongo geospatial queries

What's next for veebibi

Think this one is dead :)

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