On 26 Feb 2009, at 23:49, Hugues Romain (RCS) wrote: > Hi everyone, > As a professional in public transport free software (routing, > display screens, DRT, consulting, etc.) I am currently working on an > extension of OpenStreetMap about public transportation schedules in > order to be able to do full pedestrian routing (use of footways, > streets, and public transport services). > This project is currently named OpenTimeTables (OTT).
Welcome to the list, and I assume that you products in France are referenced back to Transmodel so we can have confidence that what you call a Stop Point and a Stop Area is what I mean by the same term. I am pleased to say that we have a growing group of people from the professional community on this list now and that this includes a number of people who helped define the CEN standards themselves. I worked on the NaPTAN - definition of bus stops etc (UK), TransXchange - exchange of schedules (UK), SIRI - exchange of real time PT information (CEN) and also passively involved in IFOPT - complex interchange standard (CEN). We also have Joe Hughes (Google Transit and GTFS), Roger Slevin (DfT/Traveline/CEN), Peter Stoner (Traveline) and Nick Knowles (author of many of the CEN standards) - Nick has updated the NaPTAN wiki page in the past few days and will probably announce himself soon. It would be good to have people from other counties as well participating, but the list is doing very well indeed. In relation to your project I assume you are aware of some of these other projects that are happening around the world? http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/ http://headwayblog.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Third-Party_Sites I don't see this as a reason not to get stuck into the subject, far from it. There are lots of players, but also lots of work still to be done. Lets use this list to ensure that there is a good workable link between the physical infrastructure (OSM core activity) and the schedules (OTT/GTFS etc). Our challenge within OSM is to get all this knowledge, effort and commitment turned into a usable and functional set of simple tags. I love the way people are collecting photos of bus stop flags from all over the UK to compare with the NaPTAN data, it is this level of detailed attention that is going to take this project to some very interesting places. Regards, Peter > _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
