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<title>Mapanica.net - OpenStreetMap Nicaragua</title>
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<h2>Crowd-sourced Open Data public transportation map</h2>
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Until recently, there has been <strong>no map for 45 bus lines in Metropolitan Managua</strong>,
where about 80% of the <strong>2 million inhabitants</strong> are dependent
on buses to commute to work or school. Their sense of mobility is
drastically reduced, because they do not know how to get to a new
place away from their usual bus routes.<br /><br />
Over the last years, over <strong>200 volunteers surveyed the public
transportation network</strong> of the capital city Managua and the nearby Ciudad Sandino
and created:
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<li><a href="https://rutas.mapanica.net/mapa">a paper map</a></li>
<li><a href="https://rutas.mapanica.net">a simple online map</a></li>
<li><a href="https://transportr.app">integrated into a smartphone application</a></li>
<li><a href="https://datos.mapanica.net">all data and raw files are available as Open Data</a></li>
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<img width="640" src="/img/transport_map.jpg" />
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<h5>Crowd-sourced map:</h5>
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A group of citizens, students and mapping enthusiasts decided to
take this task. And we chose to use the existing tools and
infrastructure around the <a href="https://openstreetmap.org"
target="_blank">OpenStreetMap project</a>, which fit perfectly
in our needs.<br /><br />
As volunteers, we collected colaboratively the geographic
information and data of the entire city's public transportation
network, with the motivation to make mobility in Managua and Ciudad Sandino more
comfortable.
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<img width="640" src="/img/bus_mapping.jpg" />
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<h5>OpenData</h5>
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The <a href="https://www.mapanica.net/rutas-managua.html">data is made already
available </a> on OpenStreetMap, where it can be
<a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/cpl">downloaded</a> by
everyone, with a <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright">free license</a>
that allows the use and modification without any restrictions.<br /><br />
We think this <strong>access to the information is important to guarantee
sustainability of the effort and is an important base for an
egalitarian development</strong>. Everybody is encouraged to create further
innovation.
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<h5>Paper map design</h5>
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When we started designing <a href="https://rutas.mapanica.net/mapa">the map</a>, we got highly inspired by the <a href="http://www.digitalmatatus.com/about.html">Digital
Matatus</a> project in Nairobi. In particular, <a href="http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/02/what-informal-transit-looks-when-you-actually-map-it/8283/">
how the to create a good design</a> for <strong><i>informal transit</i></strong>,
which perfectly applies to the <i>less formal transit</i> we have
in Nicaragua.<br /><br />
At the same time we had to be very careful and creative about
the elaboration of the map. Our main concern was how to
understandably present the city and routes so that people can
read the information, even though it is <strong>the first time
in their lives they are using a transit system map.</strong>
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<center><img width="224" src="/img/mapanica-transportr.jpg" /></center>
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<h5>Mobile applications</h5>
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In a next step the we wanted to offer state-of-the-art routing applications to the visitors and inhabitants of Managua. For this, the data from OpenStreetMap was combined with also crowd-sourced schedule information by the Sofware tool we co-developed with Free Sofware community members in Brasil, Costa Rica, France and Germany: <a href="https://github.com/grote/osm2gtfs">osm2gtfs</a>. The result is the common format for public transport data - <strong>GTFS</strong> -, which was then possible to include into existing applications, where the data can be used now:
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<li><a href="https://transportr.app/">Transportr</a>: Public transport route planner for Android. Because its convenience and its characteristic of being Free Software, it is the best option for users of the collective transport.</li>
<li><a href="https://transitapp.com/">TransitApp</a>: Travel assistant and route planner. Application for Android and iOS that tells you how to move around the city using public transport or bicycle. The application uses the data of the users to estimate the positions of the routes in real time.</li>
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