Social Bus Info System

[Azat]

Hi everybody!

Please check out an OpenData app: Social Bus Information System
(Manchester) - http://bus.cs.man.ac.uk

The web application is the one presented at a Social Media Cafe
meeting - a crowdsourcing project. The interface was slightly improved
and a simple rating system was implemented.

Comments, suggestions or thoughts - any feedback would be very much
appreciated either on the website or here...

Thanks!

[Bill Harrop]

I like the idea of being able to 'report a bus' and provide the real
position,It is a shame none of the buses I use are included. Why the
limited selection?

[Azat Yerzhan]

Thank you Bill for your feedback,

At first, I limited the number of services because of a scalability issue - i didn't know that the GMPTE data weights ~200Mbs. The algorithm of analysing user "reports" wasn't designed for that large data. However, I think I've come up with an optimisation of the algorithm, so, hopefully I can import all the services soon.

At second, I have an UI design issue. A user selects their service from a services list, so, number of GMPTE services (~530) make the application unusable for mobile users. I didn't know that they are so many services in Manchester! Hopefully, I'll implement a better way of selecting a service - a search box.