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Download My Travel-Time Map

I am a bit nervous about doing this, but since several people asked, here goes: You can now download the travel-time map of the Netherlands I made in Processing. I have exported applications for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Each download includes the source files, but not the data file. For that, you will need to head to Alper’s site (he’s the guy who pulled the data from 9292 and ANWB). I hope you’ll enjoy playing around with this, or learn something from the way it was put together.

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links from TechnoratiWe’ll serve government data up in multiple formats, including an API. Alper will support this project code-wise (he’s already been hacking away at widgets that reuse gov data for some months, as well as doing an interesting mash-up withKarsin 2008). The guidelines will aim to address any government worker or team asking the question “How do i open up some data?”. Hopefully we will translate this into English following our Dutch version. We’ll also fully document and make available the open

Posted by Interaction Design/User Experience on 9 February 2009 @ 2pm

[...] another update: I’ve decided to make this application available for download, including source files. Those of you who understand Dutch might enjoy his walkthrough on Vimeo. [...]

Posted by Leapfroglog - The making of a travel-time map of the Netherlands on 12 September 2008 @ 3pm

Full disclosure. Nice!

Two things:

Pretty much nobody ever looks at source. Those who do usually produce source code themselves so they know what the process is like.

It’s odd that you would need to produce separate versions for separate platforms (and no web applet version?). I thought the point of Processing was to have stuff be portable. Compiled Java byte code files for instance are still portable.

Posted by Alper on 13 September 2008 @ 6pm

Thanks for publishing. Looks very good! And playing with the sliders to create a animated visualization does add really something to the experience.

Posted by Iskander Smit on 14 September 2008 @ 2am

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Posted by dmos.tv's Network on Delicious on 14 September 2008 @ 9pm

Alper— Thanks for the kind words w.r.t. the source code. I chose to export applications, not the web version because I found the web version’s performance quite poor. Also, I was a bit unsure about loading the JSON in one go, and was too lazy to implement incremental loading. I do not know why Processing exports an app for each platform.

Iskander— Glad you like it! The interactivity is very basic (and the animation spartan) but it does the trick, I guess.

Posted by Kars on 15 September 2008 @ 8am

[...] Leapfroglog – Download my travel-time map Kars releases the source for his travel-time map of the Netherlands. Nice to see the artefact-as-code, as well as the artefact-as-design. (tags: design karsalfrink netherlands map processing programming visualisation interaction interface ) [...]

Posted by Infovore » links for September 15th on 15 September 2008 @ 7pm

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