On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:29:29PM +, Andy Allan wrote:
be running, which is in the future and the timetable changed this
week[1].
[…]
[1] hypothetically, but actually did quite recently for the UK rail
network, which is a useful illustration.
If you’re lucky they’ll give you advanced
You can't crowdsource a timetable. You can't crowdsource the future
without objective evidence.
You can, however, crowdsource what has happened in the past, and use
it to make list of when the trains usually used to run. But I have
absolutely no interest in an application that says trains usually
Frederik Ramm wrote:
Soundy overly complex compared to just using pdftotext and then
parsing the resulting ASCII text, unless of course there's OCR
involved which would rule out this approach.
Doesn't preserve the layout, in particular the columns, well enough. The UK
rail timetable PDF is
I think that would be an excellent idea, however don't assume transit
authorities will always give you the data because they often won't for
various reasons. There is not however a problem as far as I know in
people collecting their own timetable information from printed
material and entering
On 18 Dec 2008, at 13:46, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
I think that would be an excellent idea, however don't assume transit
authorities will always give you the data because they often won't
for
various reasons. There is not however a problem as far as I know in
people collecting their own
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Nick Whitelegg
nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
I think that would be an excellent idea, however don't assume transit
authorities will always give you the data because they often won't for
various reasons. There is not however a problem as far as I know in
people
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
I was wondering however, if any of the authorities in gtfs-data-
exchange would mind their data about the positioning of bus stops to
be imported into OSM. Might be worth asking them at some point. The
current bus
Peter Miller wrote:
I think that would be an excellent idea, however don't assume transit
authorities will always give you the data because they often won't for
various reasons.
One of the wonderful things about ODbL is the concept of a collective work
as applied to separate databases.
Not that I'm planning to screenscrape the PDF timetable or anything. Though
I imagine that, if I were, I'd use CAM::PDF to read the file, write my own
PDF renderer, then parse the columns and put the result in a MySQL database.
Purely hypothetically.
Would you happen to have a hypothetically
On 17 Dec 2008, at 14:22, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
I'm interested in completely mapping my city bus network, it would be
great if there was some online routing application that I could go to
that could plan my routes. Of course I'd have to provide it with
sufficient survey information to do
On 17 Dec 2008, at 7:05, Peter Miller wrote:
I wonder if there is scope for an OpenTimetable.org system or similar,
which is an integrated - and open - bus/train timetable database.
Transport companies could be invited to supply data to this, and
then it
could be made available to anyone.
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