heatchmap 0.2.8

A package for estimation and visualization of hitchhiking quality.

Heatchmap - A package for estimation and visualization of hitchhiking quality.

Prerequisites

The up-to-date raw map is on huggingface, the model used to calculate it can be found there as well.

Both - model and map - are updated monthly using the latest data from hitchmap.com. The update is performed by running this script.

Just getting the map

With the above prerequisites still running you can get the latest map with the code shown in https://github.com/Hitchwiki/hitchhiking.org which will result in the map on https://hitchhiking.org.

Installation

You can install the heatchmap package from PyPI:

pip install heatchmap

Linting

We use Ruff for linting https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/.

The settings can be found in ruff.toml.

To configure automatic linting for VS Code check out the extension https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-vscode.

Usage

Here are some usage examples for the heatchmap package:

• https://github.com/Hitchwiki/hitchhiking-heatmap-generator

Contributing

If you want to build predictive models related to hitchhiking (e.g. waiting time) you are welcome get get started experimenting here. If you show promising results your models can be integrated into this package as well.