Toy Projects

Below you can find some things I made in my spare time.

Journey Times Mapper

This little tool fetches journey times on london's public transport from one stop to every other in the network and then plots those times on a standard tube map. It supports cycling times and public transport times. Some examples:
Cycling times from King's Cross St. Pancras | Tube times from Stepney Green

Feel free to download this and give it a go: Download.
Requirements: Python, Inkscape (for converting to pdf). Only tested on Ubuntu linux 9.10.

Usage: ./journeyTimes.py [options] 'departurestation'
Example: ./journeyTimes.py -c -f times.pdf "Piccadilly Circus" (gets cycling times from Piccadilly and output to times.pdf)

It's written in python and it works by repeatedly querying the TFL journey planner. Next, the times are plotted on an SVG copy of the tube map and converted to pdf via Inkscape. Note that for public transport times, it queries using the current time and just uses the first result, so results may be slightly different depending on when you run it.