Good job Thej & Sajjd on scraping BMTC stop & route info from their website and presenting on OSM.
But I am sure that if we count bus stations in Bangalore it will have 1000 stops more ( around 4000 in total ). So we need to find those missing ones. Google Map has better list of bus stations for Bangalore than BMTC. But unfortunately GMap does not provide API to get that information directly. I found a workaround where Google Local search provides bus stations in a given locality. So quite an amount on scrapping work can be done on Google Map itself to extract bus_stations. I will give try in spare time. On the live tracking point, BMTC already awarded a project last year to put tracking devices in all its fleet (6500+ buses). The project is expected to complete end of this year. In that case, if the system works well we can get the GPS logs of BMTC buses. This can help us both in live update and also accurate route and stop database building. Also BMTC has floated a tender for digitization of schedules. If this project is on, we can expect to get accurate bus stop, route and schedule information from BMTC. In fact, we can ask BMTC to publish their data in GTFS format which we can use to build services/solutions on top of it. Sajjad, What license are you asking about ? License to publish GTFS data ? Regards, Suvajit On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8:51:30 PM UTC+5:30, Thejesh GN wrote: > > Is it live somewhere? > > -- > Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ > http://thejeshgn.com > GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 > On Feb 18, 2014 8:27 PM, "srinivas kodali" <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I was going through the BMTC technical document to implement Expected >> Time of Arrival (ETA) for Buses in Bangalore. >> >> Scrapping real-time data would be more fun. if they won`t give API`s >> >> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Meera <[email protected] >> <javascript:>>wrote: >> >>> If anybody want to develop any public data tools/widgets like bus routes >>> - we can embed it on bangalore.citizenmatters.in/data-tools as objects. >>> It can help general junta to access it easily. >>> >>> -Meera >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Sajjad Anwar <[email protected]<javascript:> >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> OSM allows gtfs tags - >>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/General_Transit_Feed_Specification >>>> Since GTFS is a widely accepted standard. >>>> >>>> I'm asking some friends at OSM about uploading the bus stop data to >>>> the repository. Since we scraped it there might be a challenge. Do you >>>> know what license BMTC publishes this in? >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Sajjad. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Thejesh GN >>>> <[email protected]<javascript:>> >>>> wrote: >>>> > We can. >>>> > >>>> > But if there is OSM version of the same, i will prefer that. >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ >>>> > http://thejeshgn.com >>>> > GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 >>>> > >>>> > On Feb 18, 2014 5:27 PM, "Sajjad Anwar" <[email protected] <javascript:>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> On a second thought and while talking people, it might make sense to >>>> >> publish this data in the GTFS format >>>> >> (https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/) >>>> >> >>>> >> -- >>>> >> For more details about this list >>>> >> http://datameet.org/discussions/ >>>> >> --- >>>> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups >>>> >> "datameet" group. >>>> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>> send an >>>> >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>>> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > For more details about this list >>>> > http://datameet.org/discussions/ >>>> > --- >>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups >>>> > "datameet" group. >>>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>> send an >>>> > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sajjad Anwar http://geohacker.in >>>> >>>> -- >>>> For more details about this list >>>> http://datameet.org/discussions/ >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "datameet" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> For more details about this list >>> http://datameet.org/discussions/ >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "datameet" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> -- >> For more details about this list >> http://datameet.org/discussions/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "datameet" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. 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