Re: [Talk-transit] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-08 Thread santamariense
> Perhaps it would be possible to > start something like a new gtfs.openstreetmap.org (which would be similar > to transit.land and transitfeeds.com, but with a focus of OpenStreetMap > integration) for hosting GTFS feeds that could be integrated into OSM. > That would allow for much easier

Re: [Talk-transit] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-08 Thread Mike N
On 11/8/2018 5:12 PM, john whelan wrote: The GTFS bus stop data is of varying quality.  Locally we have an automated system that calls out the bus stop names and generally the position in the GTFS file is accurate to within a meter. Some other transit systems are not as accurate, and the

Re: [Talk-transit] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-08 Thread Kevin Dalley
There's real time GTFS and static GTFS files. The static files have the current schedule, routes, bus stops, etc contained in files. The files can be downloaded, but each transit agency has its own location. GO-Sync, from University of Southern Florida synchronizes some static GTFS data with

Re: [Talk-transit] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-08 Thread Mike N
On 11/8/2018 12:06 PM, Leif Rasmussen wrote: I think that creating a new GTFS server would be better than using transit land or transitfeeds.com , because OSM would have full control over what happened to the servers and which licencing was used. Does anyone with

Re: [Talk-transit] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-08 Thread Leif Rasmussen
Integrating GTFS seems like a much better idea than adding actual schedules to OpenStreetMap. I had not considered this previously because I did not understand how GTFS is used worldwide. Perhaps it would be possible to start something like a new gtfs.openstreetmap.org (which would be similar to