Mike,
Waterloo license is based UK Government's Open Government Licence and is
considered as a true OpenData license. It is not the case for all canadian
cities and governments. For my city, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, the data is
available but the license is to restrictive. I will have to negociate with the
city before using it.
Talking of quality, I was thinking about the coordinates precision wich may be,
for some databases, very approximative depending on the method used. It is best
evaluating before we use these.
Buses routes essentially consist of ways describing the route and nodes
describing the stops. The tags may describes specific platforms or route. In
the relation, it is also important to indicate the role for ways and nodes.
wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Buses describes the node tags and
relations. As it is said, we have a relation for one direction only.
wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route provides also
valuable information.
For each city, it also links to a wiki page describing this city route
relations. There are numerous examples that help to understand the process. I
suggest you should add your city when the work is finished.
There are various ways to document. A nice example is city of Toulouse in
France were routes are grouped by various type (ie. metro, bus, etc.).
see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Toulouse/Transports_publics
Pierre
>________________________________
> De : Mike Boos <[email protected]>
>À : Pierre Béland <[email protected]>
>Cc : Tom Taylor <[email protected]>; "[email protected]"
><[email protected]>
>Envoyé le : Jeudi 15 novembre 2012 13h24
>Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Bus maps for Ottawa
>
>
>Hi
>
>
>I was actually thinking of something similar for the Region of Waterloo, for
>both the routes and bus stop data, which is available under an Open Data
>License
>(http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regionalGovernment/OpenDataLicence.asp) I
>am exploring the use of a tool called GO-sync for converting the data. I've
>heard that the shape data RoW provides may not be of great quality, so I
>suspect it might take me some time to do this properly.
>
>
>Mike
>
>
>On 15 November 2012 13:03, Pierre Béland <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Tom
>>
>>this Ottawa license seems compatible with ODbl. Then, I think that the data
>>can be imported. You can add to the relation the tag source=City of Ottawa.
>>
>>
>>I have not done any yet, but it does not seem to complicate. Wiki pages
>>should give godd information. Also, looking at some Bus relations should help
>>to understand the content.
>>
>>
>>In the relation, you enter nodes for every stop. From discussions I have seen
>>elsewhere, I think that It is important to control the quality of such data
>>before you import.
>>
>>
>>Pierre
>>
>>
>>
>>>________________________________
>>> De : Tom Taylor <[email protected]>
>>>À : [email protected]
>>>Envoyé le : Jeudi 15 novembre 2012 12h46
>>>Objet : [Talk-ca] Bus maps for Ottawa
>>>
>>>
>>>I was looking at Helsinki for solutions to a lane mapping problem (how
to map left turn lanes), and noticed they have bus routes specified as
relations on the road segments. This put me in mind of Ottawa. My first thought
was to check on copyright issues. I learned that Ottawa has an open data policy
(catalogue at
http://www.ottawa.ca/en/city_hall/statisticsdata/opendata/info/index.htm). Talk
about an embarrassment of riches! Now I just have to put the tools together to
do bulk mapping to OSM.
>>>
>>>Or has someone already tackled this?
>>>
>>>Tom Taylor
>>>
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