The story
In Algiers you find out when the bus comes by standing where the bus comes and waiting. The mapping apps everyone already has show nothing: they consume open transit data, and there is none to consume. Where a timetable does exist it describes an intention rather than a schedule, which is its own kind of missing data, and harder to detect than an empty file.
The product
The rider app comes in the three languages the country reads in. Underneath it I built the network out of sources never meant to be one: map geometry, timetable estimates, coarse positions. The pipeline publishes the result, 281 stations and 374 connections, as a standard transit feed.
