Atlas of Popular Transport: Democratizing mobility data
summary
Community teams map minibuses, tuk-tuks and shared vans across 16 cities (now a network of over 50 cities), collecting routes with low-cost GPS data collection, converting them into standardized GTFS feeds, validating and versioning the datasets, and visualizing trips with Mapbox Studio and GL JS over satellite imagery. The Nairobi dataset now powers five mobile apps; work focuses on a reproducible pipeline — collecting, cleaning, converting, publishing — while sometimes refusing maps when disclosure risks harm.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 2:30About the speaker and project
- 6:47Atlas of Popular Transport concept
- 12:14Atlas exhibition and stories
- 17:18Technical workflow and tools
- 19:26Equity and collective intelligence
- 20:51Future of the Atlas project
- 22:17Surprises and lessons learned
- 23:20Tourists and safety in local routes
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