Mapster is back alive and kicking!
The current item on my agenda is adding TTC Buses which involves a lot of changes to Mapster internals. Also, adding the TTC Buses requires me to parse all the data from the ttc website.
This is by far the worst data I have seen or imagined. I have a strong suspicion that all the data was entered by a blind person in 1965.
I ll write later on the assumptions that allowed me to parse the schedules more or less accurately. But in this post, I ll talk about geocoding stations. The geocoder remained unchanged ever since Ivan worked on it more than 8 months ago. It works like a champ for stations that are within reasonable bounds of human understanding. However, 10% of all the stations seems to defy gravity and have no relation to earth's surface!
Here are my numbers:
Geocoded successfully: 1790 stations
Failed to geocode: 164 stations
Those 164 stations include amazing jewels pointing to a complete lack of standards.
My personal favourites:
NO FRILLS
LAWSON at OVERPASS ( I will be an old man when a geocoder can figure this out)
COMMON AREA ( apparently implies York university and has 7 different ways to spell it)
I've manually geocoded around 100 stations this Saturday and have around 60 left:)
This is a good progress since after I geocode all of them, it will remove the last obstacle for the testing of the faster trip planner:)
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