Tokyo Dreams in Geodetic Prose

✨ I like looking for apartments

✨ I like Tokyo and the surrounding area

✨ I like Geodetic data

So here you have (in development) a collection of small tools I will use for apartment hunting. For now just to scratch my itch, but eventually to help me find my dream place in the Tokyo metro.

Status

⚠️ Blocked: Due to licensing issues, Google does not make its Transit data for Japan available through the API. Searching for an alternative provider.

Plans

• Leverage Google APIs to have a microservice that will build and periodically refresh Isochrones (lines of equal trvel time) around target areas.
• Identify an API, potentially Association for Open Data of Public Transportation, to provide transit route data.
• Build a microservice to store my Isochrones for reference.
• Build a Firefox Plugin to tell me if an apartment is inside or outside of my Isochrones.
• Contract-based types and testing.
• ...

Tools

• PNPM Workpsaces and Turbo Repo for Pacakage and Dependency Management
• NestJS
• Jest
• Zod
• Google Routes API
• Google Geocoding API