Mapumental
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Mapumental helps users locate where to live based on public transport journey times, house prices and 'scenicness'.
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Mapumental allows users to enter a postcode and then creates a map centred on that location. Users can then use slide bars to determine areas on the map that are a certain time away from that location by public transport, within a certain house price range and a certain level of 'scenicness'. This is currently best at helping users work out where else they might live to have a better daily commute but fureture features plan to expand this usage.
The maps are produced using OpenStreetMap data. The public transport data comes from Traveline's National Public Transport Data Repository and was captured in October 2008 and features rail, bus, coache, the underground, tram and ferry travel. House price data comes from a list of domestic property sale recorded with the Land Registry for England and Wales between the start of January 2008 and the end of March 2009. There are no house prices available in Scotland due to the cost of access to this data. Scenicness is bassed on people voting on photos of Britain, from Geograph, on the website ScenicOrNot.[1]
History
Mapumental is produced by MySociety in partnership with Channel 4's 4iP. It is based on MySociety's Travel Time Maps and launched to closed beta in June 2009, with anyone able to request an invite.[2]
Future developments
Planned future features for Mapumental include:[1]
- Building the system to function on a large scale to enable it to become fully public.
- Allow users to choose journeys arriving at times other than 9am.
- Allow users to choose journeys that leave after a specified time, rather than arrive
- Enable multiple centres, so users can see places to live within 40 minutes of two different places of work
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mapumental: Help - Mapumental - accessdate=2009.06.25
- ↑ Say hello to Mapumental - mySociety blog - accessdate=2009.06.25
