High-Level Project Summary
We digitized the railway routes of karachi using Arc Gis.Many of the routes in karachi were no longer in use and those routes were covered in dense vegetation and were destroyed due to the construction of bridges and roads in that particular area, they were no longer updated in the satellite images. We digitized the entire railway routes in karachi using the line feature in Arc Gis. We also digitized the railway stations and the departments which were required in those railway stations using the polygon feature available in Arc Gis. The method we used can also be implemented to trace the all transit routes in any part of the world and updated on the designated application and softwares.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
We pitched an idea to update the transit routes using the satellite image data and update them to the designated applications and softwares. The public can have great benefits with the updated information. We used the line and polygon feature in ArcGIS. Many more tools can be used in ArcGis to update the available maps. They can further be coded using HTML, JavaScript and CSS and maps can be updated for any part in the world.
Space Agency Data
We used Google Maps, Google Earth Pro, ArcGIS and NASA world wind planetary globe.
Hackathon Journey
It was a very intellectual journey for our entire team. We got to learn a lot and meet new people coming from different institutions. The reason we chose this challenge was because we knew how to use Arc Gis priorly, and as this challenge is related to earth data analysis it became quite easy for us and became our very first choice. We searched for the commute routes in Pakistan as it was not updated on the Nasa world wind app, thus we decided to pursue this challenge. We digitized the entire railway routes in our city region as well as the stations, reformed them a bit giving a rough sketch of how it can be updated time to time.
References
https://maps.google.com
https://www.google.com/earth/versions/
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
Tags
#intergalacticwizards