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trynmaps / metrics-mvp

Prototype of public transit data visualization system
https://muni.opentransit.city
MIT License
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Show quick filter for current day/time #311

Open hathix opened 5 years ago

hathix commented 5 years ago

The scenario: a tourist is trying to figure out which bus to take home and needs to quickly know how good the various buses she could take are. She wants to quickly apply a filter for the current time of day and the current day of week to get an accurate view of the average quality of the buses nearby. She could do this manually in opentransit but it requires fiddling with settings, and she doesn't have much time.

The solution: a button in the date picker (or elsewhere in the header) that instantly applies a filter for the current time of day (e.g. 9-10pm) and day of week (e.g. Tuesday).

I literally had this exact problem in Pittsburgh just now- 5 buses around, Google maps had no idea which ones were nearby, so I had to guess which bus had the shortest wait.

exxonvaldez commented 4 years ago

This should be more doable when we (I) add support for selecting day of the week to the date picker plus date range support. Then we can add a shortcut for something that selects "last 30 days, today's day of the week only, with the time range for the current time".