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<p>and yes - the problem is really not simple, but indeed very challenging.</p>
<p>Most transit maps today are not done in a GIS, but by designers in a graphics applications, like Adobe-Illustrator. The process is usually not automated, but manual.</p>
<p>However, I believe a semi-automated approach would be great to have. For some, the outcome might be satisfactory, for others not - and these could start with (Q)GIS and continue later in a graphics package.</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Besides on what was discussed here on the list already, I can add the following information: the Swiss QGIS user group has mandated Nyall Dawson to carry out a couple of days of research exactly on this topic - kind of a feasibility study if it would be possible to draw such network maps "on the fly" / automatically - with transit maps and hiking maps (multiple parallel hiking routes) in mind.</p>
<p>I believe Nyall will work on this before the end of the year.</p>
<p>Of course we cannot promise anything - but based on the outcome of this study, there might be follow-up work pending. If there is interest from other users we might want to organize an institutional crowd funding initiative.</p>
<p>This won't help you immediately - but it might be good for you to know that the problem is on the radar. If there is a positive outcome in the study, there might be implementation work pending next year.</p>
<p>Greetings,</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
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<div>For a transit map, it seems the offset would not be constant. Consider two bus routes that overlap along a single street in their routes. On that street, the two lines typically would be offset to opposite sides of the line representing the street. On the rest of the route, however, the route would be shown as lying directly over the centerline, not offset to either side. Life gets even more complicated when multiple routes overlap with different numbers of other routes at various points on the map. Or at least that's what I've typically seen on transit maps. <br /><br />On 10/7/2021 3:30 PM, Nicolas Cadieux wrote:
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<div>You can also trim the lines in the symbology (at least in QGIS 3.20) as well as giving it an offset. That will insure that intersection are not overlapping in the offset.<br /><br />
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<blockquote style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0;">Le 7 oct. 2021 à 17:23, Nicolas Cadieux <a class="v1v1moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:njacadieux.gitlab@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer"><njacadieux.gitlab@gmail.com></a> a écrit :<br /><br /></blockquote>
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<div dir="ltr">Oups! Forgot the list...<br /><br />
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<blockquote style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0;">Le 7 oct. 2021 à 17:23, Nicolas Cadieux <a class="v1v1moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:njacadieux.gitlab@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer"><njacadieux.gitlab@gmail.com></a> a écrit :<br /><br /></blockquote>
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<div>You can automatically draw an offset by adding a offset in the symbology. Things get more complicated when line vectorization changes directions as the offset flips side depending on, for example, if the line is drawn from A to B or B to A. </div>
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<div>In the QGIS models, <a href="https://plugins.qgis.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://plugins.qgis.org/</a>, go to models then Fix Directional Network models 1,2 and 3. That will help you find problems (like disconnected lines) but also identify all the lines that are flipped. You can then flip them manually or figure out an algorithm to do it automatically.</div>
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<div>You will also find a boring YouTube video on my YouTube channel. <a href="https://youtu.be/v61PafSByvM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://youtu.be/v61PafSByvM</a><br /><br />
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<div>I'm wondering if anyone has any good tricks for mapping bus routes. The key problem is defining how to offset lines where the routes overlap.</div>
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<div>I've handled this by chopping up the lines and offsetting in postgis according to some st_dwithins and st_intersections but wanted to see if there is anything in the wide world of QGIS that I'm not aware of.</div>
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<div>My understanding is that it's a fairly significant challenge to do a great job with it. A company called transitapp had an interesting blog post about it a while ago. <a href="https://archive.transitapp.com/transit-maps-apple-vs-google-vs-us-cb3d7cd2c362#.e9kcryzg1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://archive.transitapp.com/transit-maps-apple-vs-google-vs-us-cb3d7cd2c362#.e9kcryzg1</a></div>
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