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Sustainable transport planning with R
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ITS branding #363

Closed mem48 closed 4 years ago

mem48 commented 4 years ago

@Robinlovelace I had a first go at an ITS hexsticker see https://github.com/ITSLeeds/opentripplanner perhaps a thing to put on all the ITS packages?

Robinlovelace commented 4 years ago

Nice. I think that will be ideal for the bottom and perhaps top of the README. But I don't think all ITS packages should have the same hex sticker, how would you tell them apart?! For OTP, I'd recommend a map showing a multi-modal route (e.g. to ITS ; ). https://github.com/GuangchuangYu/hexSticker makes it pretty quick to build them, I could give it a bash if you like? I take your point about linking it to ITS though, stplanr began before my time at ITS started but it's definitely linked to the institute. I think at a minimum a link to https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/transport could be added to the readme.

mpadge commented 4 years ago

hexSticker has some ... issues ... like, for example, that it's impossible to use a background image - everything is simply overlaid, and the main field is rectangular, not hexagonal (coz it's all ggplot). Just in case that causes you concerns or frustrations, I put together my own code to properly fill an entire background, and to do proper trimming of the plotting field to an actual hexagon. Code lies in osmdata here - feel free to pilfer and adapt. (And yes @Robinlovelace, directly inspired by your stplanr attempts - thanks!)

Robinlovelace commented 4 years ago

Good info @mpadge, should have mentioned that, and the fact that I didn't actually use hexSticker but a combination of R, Inkscape and design skills from my housemate Pete!

mem48 commented 4 years ago

its_base_hex I had another go, with an opentripplanner unique logo, and the ITS templae we could use on ITS packages. I leave it up to you if you want to put on stplanr.

Robinlovelace commented 4 years ago

Nice concept. Note that it would need to be vectorised to work well IMO. See this submission that requires an svg version or at least a high res version of hex logos (that version looks low res): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaLWrD1YWLVMkY7-Lw0YGUqJBpi_n4ZD39BxCIUzq2Kr-v9g/viewform

mem48 commented 4 years ago

I think that's beyond my image editing skills, but we can try it out on opentripplaner and see how it goes

Robinlovelace commented 4 years ago

I'm sure there's a way of adding nice vector graphics + that text into a hex sticker made by the hexSticker package or Mark's adaptations of it. Good project for a student maybe?

Robinlovelace commented 4 years ago

Currently this is the front page:

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