Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread Paul Allen
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 5:07 PM Leif Rasmussen <354...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread djakk djakk
That is something that OSM should map instead of the official timetable :) In Paris it is almost the same case, the bus does not follow their official timetable due to grid locks. Julien « djakk » Le mer. 7 nov. 2018 à 00:16, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit : > > > sent from a phone > > > On 6.

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread Paul Allen
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:07 AM OSMDoudou < 19b350d2-b1b3-4edb-ad96-288ea1238...@gmx.com> wrote: > > Even if you can make it fit, it's not necessarily a good idea to do it. > > I'm thinking of the Hoover Dustette. > > Excuse my ignorance. You’re thinking to what ? > The Hoover Dustette was a

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread djakk djakk
For example in Japan transit companies sells their timetable for about 1000€ ... maybe copying the timetable is forbidden but Osm can have at least an opening hour and a frequency for a line in Japan. An other example, the city of Accra (Ghana) : only share taxis, no transit authority, lines are

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread Jonathon Rossi
I've been following along the few threads to better understand this topic, however I'm still feeling that mapping complex timetables is a bit like mapping the full menu of a cafe or restaurant, or the room options at a hotel. These things vary whenever the service business chooses and it is close

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread djakk djakk
Hello ! Ok for a google hangout ! I’m also available tonight and on Friday evening. Julien « djakk » Le mer. 7 nov. 2018 à 12:53, Jo a écrit : > Hi Tony, > > Could you also have a look at the proposal I created? > > >

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread Paul Allen
On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 5:08 PM Jo wrote: > (started writing this several hours ago) > > And another that goes into full detail, listing all the departures at the > first stop and then lists all stops, with the most common times between > stops as roles. For this we would need separate

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread Tony Shield
Hi I have worked in data analysis for many years, recently become interested in PT and added routes to my locality. I look at PT timetables frequently as much of my travel is by PT. My use case is that I want to find times and routes from A to B, I do not know the route numbers or their

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread Jo
Hi Tony, Could you also have a look at the proposal I created? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_transport_timetables At the moment I'm looking into how to represent that in meaningful ways using MapCSS in JOSM, but I don't think that makes too much sense. For your

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread djakk djakk
:) Le mar. 6 nov. 2018 à 20:55, Yves a écrit : > Are you looking for a general transit feed specification? > :) > > Yves > > Le 6 novembre 2018 20:22:18 GMT+01:00, djakk djakk > a écrit : >> >> Ok I see. >> >> I am still a bit reluctant to your proposal since the travelling time >> between 2

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread Yves
Are you looking for a general transit feed specification? :) Yves Le 6 novembre 2018 20:22:18 GMT+01:00, djakk djakk a écrit : >Ok I see. > >I am still a bit reluctant to your proposal since the travelling time >between 2 stops can vary during the day, especially for train routes. >Ok there is

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread djakk djakk
Ok I see. I am still a bit reluctant to your proposal since the travelling time between 2 stops can vary during the day, especially for train routes. Ok there is the possibility of adding a new timetable relation ... Moreover, I think that data inputs from the ground can not be done with your

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread djakk djakk
Almost that ! Sometimes bus stops does not have their official timetable, the user have to refer to the closest previous bus stop having an official timetable. So this kind of bus stop may not have a timetable in osm (except an osm mapper really wants to put it into osm, knowing per habits the

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread djakk djakk
In which case a timetable per stop and per route is unmaintable ? Julien “djakk” Le mar. 6 nov. 2018 à 16:59, djakk djakk a écrit : > I think it is important to have an osm object describing the timetable > user-oriented for simple editing without any tool. > The mapper is at a bus stop,

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread djakk djakk
I don’t get it ... With my point of view, one route with 15 stops has 15 timetables, each timetable describes the arrival time and the departure time of several trips at the stop. There must be the same number of trips along the stops’ timetables. (Otherwise this is an other route). You mean,

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread djakk djakk
I think it is important to have an osm object describing the timetable user-oriented for simple editing without any tool. The mapper is at a bus stop, takes a picture of the timetable, can import it later in osm without the need of any extra tool. Validator can be inside a tool. Julien « djakk »

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread djakk djakk
Martin, maybe locals do know their bus stop timetable, as they always use the service they may memorize the schedules ... ? Julien Le lun. 5 nov. 2018 à 17:08, Jo a écrit : > Hi Leif, > > You made me do it! :-) I sort of stole your proposal and started creating > a new one. It differs in

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread djakk djakk
... and/or an abbreviation with the frequency : departures=5:15 - 1:25 every 1:30 ~ 3 minutes (This is for Rennes’ subway line) Julien « djakk » Le mar. 6 nov. 2018 à 16:07, djakk djakk a écrit : > I’ll agree with Leif, having a timetable relation per stop is better. > > > Yes Leif, there can

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread djakk djakk
In order to reduce the length of the value of the departures= tag, should we allow this kind of abstraction level : departures=5:35 ; 6:35 ; [7-19]:[05;35] ; 20:35 ; 21:35 ? Julien « djakk » Le mar. 6 nov. 2018 à 15:41, djakk djakk a écrit : > Martin, maybe locals do know their bus stop

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-11 Thread djakk djakk
I’ll agree with Leif, having a timetable relation per stop is better. Yes Leif, there can be a delay expressed in minutes instead of an arrival-departure pair of time. Julien « djakk » Le mar. 6 nov. 2018 à 16:04, djakk djakk a écrit : > In order to reduce the length of the value of the

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-07 Thread OSMDoudou
> Even if you can make it fit, it's not necessarily a good idea to do it. > I'm thinking of the Hoover Dustette. Excuse my ignorance. You’re thinking to what ? > I'm not sure that a wiki would be the optimal architecture for this if we > ended up with many GTFS feeds that were interrogated

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-07 Thread OSMDoudou
(Re-posting because I accidentally dropped talk-transit) On Nov 8, 2018, at 00:30, OSMDoudou <19b350d2-b1b3-4edb-ad96-288ea1238...@gmx.com> wrote: Just a quick web search, but it appears there exist GTFS editors and there is an entire ecosystem around creating and hosting GFTS files. Here is

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-07 Thread OSMDoudou
(Re-posting because I accidentally dropped talk-transit) On Nov 8, 2018, at 00:18, OSMDoudou <19b350d2-b1b3-4edb-ad96-288ea1238...@gmx.com> wrote: > And it's re-inventing the wheel. GTFS already exists. > Could we do better? Maybe, maybe not. Indeed. If someone determines GTFS needed

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-07 Thread Kevin Arutyunyan
Hello, it would be good to have this generalised kind of information for routes. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Differentiation_for_routes_of_public_transport may be related. We should not keep thinking about this "2nd version" though. It is probably impossible to add this

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-07 Thread Jo
(started writing this several hours ago) The way this proposal is evolving, there will be 2 versions. One that gives an approximate idea of how much time there is between 2 buses for a given time of day/day of week. Those can be added as tags on the route relations. That one should not be

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-07 Thread Jo
Great to hear that. when I get back home I'll further elaborate on the spreadsheet idea. Now with a full timetable for one general direction of travel On Wed, Nov 7, 2018, 13:59 Tony Shield Hi Jo > > I've looked at your proposal and I'm starting to understand it and like it. > > I looked at your

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-07 Thread Tony Shield
Hi Jo I've looked at your proposal and I'm starting to understand it and like it. I looked at your spreadsheet and this is the style of data entry which I think will work, using a spreadsheet then processing it to OSM data formats. If we use a spreadsheet then why not put the whole timetable

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-07 Thread Jo
Hi Tony, Could you also have a look at the proposal I created? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_transport_timetables At the moment I'm looking into how to represent that in meaningful ways using MapCSS in JOSM, but I don't think that makes too much sense. For your

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-06 Thread Jo
Indeed, a mapper who wants to add this and who can't find the information on the internet or in a booklet, would have travel to the first stop, take note of all the departure times and then establish the deltas between all the stops of the itinerary. If that's the case, such a mapper would

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-06 Thread Jo
Yes, very hard to debug and we already established some change every few months. So after a change from the operator. One traveler will update one of those schedules, Another may do so for 3 stops down the line, in the mean time the stops in between and after are not updated yet. A maintenance

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-06 Thread Jo
If you have a single one for a stop/route pair, no problem. As soon as you have a few hundred and the information in them starts to conflict with other another timetable relation for the same route it will be extremely hard to figure out where it went wrong. Polyglot Op di 6 nov. 2018 om 17:08

Re: [Talk-transit] [Tagging] Public Transport Timetables

2018-11-05 Thread Jo
Hi Leif, You made me do it! :-) I sort of stole your proposal and started creating a new one. It differs in rather important ways from your proposal, so I preferred not modifying your wiki page. I also think it's important to decouple the (voting for a) full timetable solution from the solution