Introduction

This is the source code that goes along with my thesis. There are four prototypes of trip planners for bike routes; they show the experience of a trip as well as the trip.

There has been very minimal code cleanup before creating this repo. It
won't run out of the box.

Map Design

The maps themselves are created with TileMill. The visual style is based upon open-streets-style.

There are 4 prototype: 2 different visual styles (A and B) and two different trips (to-cedar and to-kits). Each prototype gets a set of TileMill projects. Why a set of projects? Because there are map layers, not from TileMill, sandwiched between the layers TileMill did create. Here's an example:

The prototypes have two different visual styles (A and B); so there's one set of TileMill projects for A and another for B. Why have sets of projects? Because there are map layers, not from TileMill, sandwiched between the layers TileMill did create. Here's how they work together:

• a-only-labels: The top layer of the map is for text: street names & city names
• a-no-labels: Everything that's not the labels; the map's base layer
• a-base: A master project that includes both labels and the base layer. The stylesheets in the other projects are symlinks to this one: edit this and they both update.

open-streets-style assumes that you've set up a database with OpenStreetMap data for Vancouver, BC. See README-open-streets-style.md for instructions on how to configure this to connect to your database.

Web App

The web application is HTML + JavaScript, assembled with Jekyll. It also uses sass, haml, and various other tools (in jekyll/source/contrib).

Everything for the web app lives in the jekyll directory.

Map Data

The TileMill projects contain references to map data that aren't in this repository. Most of them are from the City of Vancouver. Other files you'll need are shoreline_300.zip and processed_p.zip.

There is other map data information in the jekyll/source/data directory. This is (a) datasets I made, (b) datasets from the City of Vancouver that I edited, and (c) elevation data from GeoBase ®.

Photographs

Molson Brewery by Todd Van Hossear, CC-BY-SA. North False Creek Seawall by Kyle Pearce, CC-BY-SA. All other photographs by Evan Dickinson.