On 8 Mar 2009, at 18:27, Joe Hughes wrote: > Glad to hear it, and I hope to see more evidence of adoption going > forward. Anything that helps get more data out there in practice can > only be good for the industry.
The adoption of Transmodel is well advanced within the industry in Europe in that if I am talking to someone else in the industry we will normally agree to talk 'Transmodel' terminology to ensure we are talking about the same concepts - there really isn't anything else one can use. Any tender for a public transport information system in Europe is likely to use Transmodel terms for its requirements and many systems (such as those from Hogia used widely in Scandinavia) are based on Transmodel from top to bottom. A good example of that was when we talked with Hugues Romain about OTT. He was also talking Transmodel to explain what he meant and everything he was talking about could be expressed using Transmodel. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-transit/2009-February/000116.html I believe that all the existing CEN standards in the area use Transmodel but that there is not (yet) a CEN standard for exchanging planned schedules. Possibly this was because there were established national standards and proprietary standards before Transmodel became established as Roger suggests. From an OSM perspective I hope we will be able to migrate to Transmodel entities and names for the 10-15 concepts which are relevant, which include Stop Point, Stop Area, Stop Place, Quay, Boarding Point, Stopping Point and probably a few more. From a Google Transit perspective it would of course be good to be able to unambiguously translate between GTFS Stops and Transmodel Stop Points/Stop Areas and OSM bus stops/ stations/platforms etc. Currently GTFS, OSM and Transmodel all have concepts which are similar but for which there is not a direct mapping and even if the name is the same the functionality may not be. The complexities are already becoming obvious and there are only three players! Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
