Magnificent Mileage

What is this?

This is a copy of the Open Trip Planner patform. It is for transit routing in the city of Chicago.

The idea is to make a free, Chicago-specific routing website and API for developers to build transit apps on top of.

A website

magnificentmileage.org

An API for transit routing

Example API call

curl --header "Accept: application/json" http://ec2-54-227-63-227.compute-1.amazonaws.com/opentripplanner-api-webapp/ws/plan \
?mode=TRANSIT%2CWALK \
&optimize=QUICK \
&maxWalkDistance=840 \
&walkSpeed=1.341 \
&date=2013-08-13 \
&toPlace=41.823781%2C-87.613907 \
&fromPlace=41.900999%2C-87.696304

Open Trip Planner API call documentation

Potential additions

See the issue tracker for details.

• walking directions (included in OTP) done
• driving directions (included in OTP) done
• biking directions (included in OTP) done
• CTA bus and train tracker arrival data
• Divvy bike share station availability
• Metra arrival data
• Auto traffic data from buses
• Large event information (think "stay away from the lake front trail during the air show")

Credits

This project is based on the Open Trip Planner by OpenPlans.

Server hosting provided by the Smart Chicago Collaborative