Repository
What is this Project?
This project is a web app that will display the live coordinates of buses around the City of Calgary on demand. Ideally you can request a route or bus name and be shown a live map view of the buses location.
Why?
This idea has been implemented many times. I’ve seen this done in Calgary already, but I wanted to make a more concise version that can run on a web page without needing a login or any unnecessary fluff.
Technologies Being Used
- Python
- Django
- React
How?
Backend
The backend is using Django as a framework and is seperating into two apps
Apps:
- core_transit_app
- models defined here
- djangorestapi lives here
- rest api lives here to be consumed by front end
- data_collection_app
- runs background data collection tasks through cron jobs
- translate data from City of Calgary’s data portal into csv files
- does version control checks when files are downloaded from data portal
- updates database based on csv’s
Frontend
React based front tend that has map component and consumes rest api from backend
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