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Jungle bus - Digital transport 4 Africa conference
1. Jungle Bus
De nouveaux outils collaboratifs pour cartographier les
transports de votre ville
New collaborative tools to map
transport networks of your city
Enock is 24. He lives in Accra, Ghana. Everyday he takes the trotro.
He knows his everyday lines by heart but faces issues when unplanned transport
No passenger information
No transport map
But, come on: that’s Accra, capital of Ghana, 2M hab
OpenStreetMap is the perfect platform to face this challenge
During the Mapanica project, the local community created the transport network’s data of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua (2M inhabitants).
Presentation from SotM 2016 in Brussels by Felix Delattre and the local community of Nicaragua.
Jungle Bus aims to reproduce this success story.
To be successful in this great challenge we need to:
1. Go simple: produce new tools to simplify transport mapping in OSM
2. Support local communities to map their own public transport network in OSM
320 lines
2700 stops
Less than 10 contributors needed: all locals. One summer work
Timetable, request an itinerary, see where the trotro goes in the city
Enock is happy : he rediscover his city, he can go see his mother
And you know what? He also has better acces to a lot of services including healthcare, education, work
AFD expectations achieved
Need of Public Transportation Department of Accra Metropolitan Assembly covered
You see Ghana on the map? What about the rest of Africa?
We support local community and, with Jungle Bus, we keep providing simpler tools.
OpenStreetMap = Wikipedia of maps
Worldwide community to create the best map of the World with open geographical data
Strenghts of OSM:
-Open Data, worldwide standard: digital common
-crowdsourcing: community contribution (managed by citizens) : in Accra since 2 months: 5 edits on lines, 9 on stops: good maintenance of the data
-community ecosystem: OSMTracker, Google Summer of code: PT assistant
-low cost & open source solution
-timetable: OSM2GTFS : GTFS is used by transport companies
-informal transport: the route changes often.
Only stops is good enough for routing
Transport networks are complex, so we need simple tools to handle this complexity
Enock’s brother uses the app while going to the beach during week-ends.
He is a baker and doesn’t know anything about maps. In the morning he takes his dog out for a walk. He maps all missing bus stops with a SIMPLE tool. He can add missing information such as if a stop has a shelter or a bench.
The app is open source and works worldwide, even without data network.
Currently translated to french, english, spanish, german, potugese, bresilian portugese, russian, polish and japanese
Very simple to create data: even my mother can do it
Come map with us
Use the app
Contribute to the code