FactGrid talk:Postal routes

Data Model

The Frankfurt-Leipzig Route is exceptionally well documented (the entire route, each halt with the respective inn, arrival end departure time). The regular documentation is from a local perspective. You are in Amsterdam and you want to know the departures into various directions (and also the arrivals of mail from these regions). We can theoretically reconstruct the network.

The cool thing would be an option to state a place and a destination - from where the tool would give you a map view of connections and changing points in the ideal case with the respective time and price information.

The information itself is available in contemporary publications. One would probably establish the details with a place to place data model - a model that notes on a place the connections to the very next places, from where again you would get just the arrivals and departures to the next surrounding places.

My initial thought was a to query: take a look at Gotha, see the departures, take a look at the given places and see from there the departures - and a filter for the final destination. That, however, did not work (and it seems SPARQL cannot do this). The basic script that would establish the entire net is simple:

• you are in Gotha, move to the next connection and continue

I failed to tell the machine how to always connect next places. --Olaf Simons (talk) 08:49, 8 November 2023 (CET)