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Finally, the moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived, the actual journey detection mechanism powering Switch.

Making sense of a train’s schedule, route and stops with the help of the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)

The real world is messy, and this post is all about taming location and activity data for the purposes of train journey discovery.

This post explores the first phase of Switch, where I dive into high level components and discuss the initial set of requirements

Why Switch?

Christoph OberhoferVienna, Austria+43 664 9211756christoph@oberhofer.colinkedin.com/in/christoph-oberhofergithub.com/serratusoberhofer.co Software Engineer and Technical Leader specializing in mobile application development, user experience and engineering

Finally, after months of changing APIs, sparse documentation and insufficient examples, new exciting features are arriving in today’s release of Chrome (59).

This is the first blog-post of a series where I try to explain the inner workings of QuaggaJS an advanced barcode-reader written in JavaScript.