2012.02.09 Weekly Check In

• 13:31 <demory> Hello everyone
• 13:31 <mele> hi
• 13:31 <grant_h> hey
• 13:32 <mattwigway> hi.
• 13:32 <PJ____> hello
• 13:32 <demory> So as I mentioned to some of you by email both David T and Andrew can't make it today, so perhaps a shorter chat than usual
• 13:32 <demory> But let's do a quick check in
• 13:32 <demory> my update -- things are getting very close w/ otpsetup -- we have an virtual private cloud and proxy server set up in AWS which will allow us to do the dns mapping (i.e. deployed instances at foo.otp.org, etc.). Currently working on one pesky bug with the deployment script but otherwise good progress this week. Hopefully something online / usable by the next chat!
• 13:33 <kpw> yay!
• 13:33 <kpw> update from me: llooking at moving forward with demory 's work on otp analyst
• 13:34 <kpw> i spent some time this week talking with jarret walker about that work
• 13:34 <demory> kpw, it's actually been mostly andrew working on analyst lately
• 13:34 <mattwigway> I finished up elevator support, which Andrew is going to merge into his branch, which will then eventually be merged into master. There's still a few longer-term things I might want to check at some point; for instance right now it doesn't support elevators directly connected to stairways.
• 13:35 <kpw> if folks haven't already, check out walker's post on using transit data for analytic functions: http://www.humantransit.org/2012/02/socrates-visits-the-us-federal-transit-administration.html)
• 13:36 <kpw> demory, my main focus has been reaching out to folks and using the project framing you put together in the fall
• 13:36 <mele> I saw that, and I must say as an ancient philosophy major in undergrad, I thought it was excellent :)
• 13:36 <mattwigway> I've also been using analyst for some advocacy work.
• 13:38 <demory> kpw, got it. tho I'm excited to get back into more active development on analyst stuff once otpsetup is finished
• 13:38 <demory> also, that's great you're talking to J Walker. I'm reading his new book right now, it's excellent
• 13:38 <kpw> demory, me too, seems like there's quite a bit of interest
• 13:39 <kpw> I saw walker give a talk on Tues--one of the best lectures I've attended. Ever. mele, i think we should make the case for more philosophy majors in planning
• 13:40 <mele> :) Yes, I agree!
• 13:40 <grant_h> what's the title of the book?
• 13:41 <demory> Human Transit, I believe
• 13:41 <demory> same as his blog, which is also very good
• 13:42 <demory> http://www.humantransit.org/
• 13:43 <demory> btw, David T reports by email that he's been working on segment matching (when importing routes for system mapping) and misc patches. And I think Andrew was going to follow up by email later.
• 13:43 <demory> TriMet folks, anything pressing this week?
• 13:44 <mele> Not with me, hopefully we can start actually trying to implement some of the accessibility tagging soon
• 13:44 -!- FrankP_ [1815504e@gateway/web/freenode/ip.24.21.80.78] has joined #opentripplanner
• 13:44 <PJ____> yep
• 13:46 <mele> Anything going on with you, Frank? David was just asking what was going on in TriMet land
• 13:46 <demory> ok. i still need to get a wiki page going for general info on approaches to accessibility, etc. Been focused on setup this week
• 13:47 <FrankP_> I'm working on getting a new rtp release out (current graph is getting old). I want to squeze in new From & To forms that use SOLR as a geocoder.
• 13:47 <demory> Great. How are things w/ RTP in general? Still good traffic/feedback/etc?
• 13:48 <FrankP_> Had a bump in traffic last month due to OHSU (Hospital) mentioning it in their newsletter...
• 13:48 <mele> Not much feedback lately. We should probably start talking about trying to get different community groups to test it more
• 13:49 <FrankP_> ...otherwise, we don't get too much traffic (maybe 50 hits per day ... let me check and get back to ya). When replace maps.trimet.org with rtp (once we have new geocoder and our own map tiles), then numbers will get larger.
• 13:50 <mattwigway> Have to run, I'll see you all later.
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• 13:50 <demory> Ok thanks Matt. Great work on the elevator support!
• 13:50 <FrankP_> App is stable. I do see the memory ever so creaping up. Last restart was Dec 13th, and started with 2.4G of ram (on 4 instances behind a load balancer)...now we're up to ~2.9G
• 13:51 <demory> Ok, good to know.
• 13:52 <grant_h> FrankP_: I don't know if this worth your time, but when using Google Street View within RTP in Internet Explorer the browser freezes up every time,
• 13:52 <demory> Is there a target date for switching over maps.trimet.org to RTP?
• 13:52 <FrankP_> no, that's a good one. I fixed that yesterday in the OTP source (fix, as in removing the SV link on IE)
• 13:53 <mele> hah
• 13:56 <demory> well anything else, anyone?
• 13:57 <FrankP_> fyi -- traffic on RTP: http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/fpurcell/ScreenShot2012-02-09at105333AM.png
• 13:58 <FrankP_> those are counts of the planned OTP trips
• 13:58 <demory> interesting, thanks
• 14:00 <FrankP_> nothing more....(btw, target date for RTP to Maps -- this summer, once I know the geocoder works, get tiles generated from OSM, and make sure the url interface to rtp supports what maps does)
• 14:01 <demory> sounds good
• 14:02 <demory> ok, unless anyone has anything else I think that's it for today
• 14:03 <demory> i will post the transcript online today
• 14:03 <demory> thanks everyone! talk next week
• 14:03 <mele> yep, thanks!
• 14:03 <grant_h> bye
• 14:03 <FrankP_> take care