mbtaviz / green-line-release

Interactive analysis of first Green Line tracking data from the MBTA

MBTA Releases Green Line Data

When we built Visualizing MBTA Data to help explain Boston's Subway System, there was no data available for the Green Line. The MBTA began publishing that data in October, 2014. This project is a web-based interactive look inside the first data that began to flow for the Green Line.

Check it out: http://mbtaviz.github.io/green-line-release.

This code is largely based on https://github.com/mbtaviz/mbtaviz.github.io.

Quick Start

1. Install node.js

2. Install bower to grab dependencies, less to compile style sheets and http-server to run the website

   npm install -g bower less http-server

3. Install dependencies

   bower install

4. Compile less css files into a single stylesheet

   lessc --clean-css styles/main.less > styles/main.css

5. Serve up the website

   http-server

6. Browse to http://localhost:8080/ to see the visualization

Source Code Layout

data\                post-processed visualization data
scripts\             JavaScript files for the visualization and the website
styles\              less CSS stylesheets and main.css that they are compiled into
media\               Opengraph/Twitter Card images
bower.json           bower dependencies
ie.png               website rendered to an image for browsers without svg support
index.html           landing page
README.md            README file that appears on the website's github page

Regenerating Stylesheets

The visualization loads main.css which is generated from all of the less files in the styles/ directory. If you change any of the less stylesheets use the less compile to regenerate main.css as described above:

lessc --clean-css styles/main.less > styles/main.css

For more information see http://lesscss.org.

Creators

Mike Barry

• https://github.com/msbarry
• https://twitter.com/msb5014

Brian Card

• https://github.com/bcard
• https://twitter.com/bmcard

License

Copyright 2014 Michael Barry and Brian Card.

JavaScript source files and less stylesheets released under the MIT License.

All other files including this README, the main web page, and images made available under Github's terms of service