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README.md

Calculate Commute Times

Calculate commute times between arbitrary origins(s) and destination(s) using the Google Maps API, and write the data to a sqlite database.

Stores to the database:

  • Datetime stamp for commute calculation
  • The origin
  • The destination
  • The distance (in miles)
  • The route summary or main road name
  • The best-case (optimistic) commute time (in minutes)
  • The worst-case (pessimistic) communte time (in minutes)
  • Warnings (any accidents, construction zones, speed traps, etc..)

The Google Maps API allows for calculating hypothetical future commutes (specific times of day), but does not account for real-time events like accidents. Schedule this script with cron (Linux) or task scheduler (Windows), or just use time.sleep() in a while loop to pull the real-time data and store to a database to get a more realistic assesment of a typical commute.

This code is made available under the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0)