Ulm Opening Hours

This project creates a website which can be used to answer questions like Which shops/bakeries/restaurants/etc. are still open? or Where can I get beer at this time?.

Often times when searching for websites of stores or other facilities, people just look for the opening hours. This application offers a handy interface which displays opening times for many locations in your city.

The data for this project is exported from the Open Street Map project on a regular basis. For more information on this see the key opening_hours. When I created this project (in early 2013) this was a reasonable approach, but in the meantime better methods have surfaced. Some of them do not require a regular export from OSM, but instead fetch the date straight from OSM on each request (see e.g. this application).

A public instance of this project is hosted on http://ulm-oeffnungszeiten.creal.de.

How it looks

During Day

During Night

ToDo Code

• Marker Popup: better formatting of opening_hours
• Change "We off" in some popups to a better readable label

ToDo OSM database

• Add data for:
• Hostels, bakeries, local post station, clubs
• Arbeitsamt und andere Öffentliche Einrichtungen (Bürgerbüro)
• Parkhäuser, etc.
• Schwörmontag Ausnahmen fuer Öffentliche Einrichtungen
• Add lecture-free-time opening hours for uni related stuff (cafe, bistro, etc.)

Getting started

This project uses node.js as a server-side runtime environment. To run the project you need to install nodejs and npm.

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/cmichi/ulm-opening-hours.git
$ cd ulm-opening-hours/

# install the necessary dependencies from the package.json
$ npm install	
$ node opening-hours.js

Then open http://localhost:3046/.

Exporting fresh data from OSM

$ ./data/export.sh > ./data/data.xml

Adapting to a different city

• Change the BoundingBox within ./data/export.sh and adapt the map's center within the file ./static/js/show.js.
• Execute $ ./data/export.sh > ./data/data.xml
• Restart the server $ node opening-hours.js and the data should be displayed on http://localhost:3046/.

Known bugs

• Once new content is fetched (~each minute), each popup is closed. This is due to each marker being recreated on a new fetch. Also the scrollbars within the category selection are set to the beginning.

Libraries & Icons

• opening_hours.js
• suncalc
• leaflet
• express
• jQuery and jQuery UI
• SimpleModal
• Check Icon by P.J. Onori, from The Noun Project
• Edit Icon by Naomi Atkinson, from The Noun Project
• GitHub Buttons

Contributors

• Robin Schneider

License

The database file ./data/data.xml is exported from the Open Street Map databse. It is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/

The code is licensed under the MIT license:

Copyright (c) 2013

	Michael Mueller <http://micha.elmueller.net/>

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