TaxiRouter SG

TaxiRouter SG is a web app that lets you explore available taxis and taxi stands in Singapore. Period.

It has very little number of features:

• List all taxi stands in Singapore.
• Shows all available taxis in the whole Singapore.
• Tells how many available taxis around you.
• Tells how far is the nearest taxi stand around you.

That's it.

Story

This project is first inspired by @uzyn's project: Singapore Taxi Data Visualization. Also following up from his talk on FOSS Asia 2016: Uncovering of an obfuscated public governmental API . Later, Data.gov.sg releases a new taxi availability API and that marks the beginning of this project.

Read more:

• Building TaxiRouter SG https://cheeaun.com/blog/2016/03/building-taxirouter-sg/
• Rebuilding TaxiRouter SG https://cheeaun.com/blog/2018/04/rebuilding-taxirouter-sg/

Bragging

🎤 I gave a talk about it on Singapore JS Meetup.

🌟 Featured on Digital News Asia, Channel 8 News and GovTech conference.

Technicalities

Data

• Download "LTA Taxi Stop" data from https://data.gov.sg/dataset/lta-taxi-stop
• Extract the GeoJSON file to data/lta-taxi-stop-geojson.geojson (assuming the file name is still the same).
• Run npm run taxi-stands to (re)generate data/taxi-stands.json, to be used by the web app

Development

• npm i - install everything
• npm start - runs a local development server
• npm run start-https - runs a local development server with HTTPS
• npm run build - builds the production assets for deployment

License

Data: © Land Transport Authority

Everything else: MIT