Bus Stop Mapping

I've taken up a new hobby.  I photograph bus stops.

You see, there are a lot of buses in Suzhou...tons of them.  And there seem to be a lot of people happily moving from place to place on them.  I wouldn't mind being one of those happy people.  Especially now that it is the rainy season and empty taxis have become scarcer than the sunshine. 

Unfortunately, all the bus route information is in Chinese.   (Or at least all that I've been able to find. )  No maps of the bus routes either.  You can find maps with the subway lines on them.  Too bad that the subway doesn't open for another year.

So now whenever we go any place, we take pictures of the nearby bus stops.   Then we go home and I plug the bus stops and the bus numbers into a big matrix.  (Actually, an Excel spreadsheet).   Slowly, with each added bus stop, a picture of the buses and their paths begins to emerge.

I don't expect to map the whole city - just the stops at the places where we most commonly go.   Besides, they change the bus routes from time to time.