Google Transit draws from the NCSD - National Coach Services Database - which comes in with the regional traveline data.
I suspect ATOC don't want to get their data on google maps because they need the advertising revenue but I might be wrong about that. Frankie Roberto wrote: > Hi all, > > I just added a new introduction to the Public Transport page > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport), trying to give > an overview of what public transport is and why it should be added to OSM. > > Whilst doing this, I had a quick play with Google's Public Transit map > service, to see how that's getting on. For the UK, it seems pretty > useless! Just about any journey I put in (London-Edinburgh, > Manchester-Sheffield), the only option I got back was a National > Express coach - seems they're the only data service they've imported > so far. > > This got me thinking - whilst OSM is a long way from being able to add > timetable information, basic routing (giving you the names of train > services, and working out where you need to change), is something OSM > could feasibly provide. > > Is anyone currently looking at this? I know of > http://www.öpnvkarte.de/ <http://www.%C3%B6pnvkarte.de/>, which > displays public transport routes, but I don't know of any experimental > routing services yet. Have I missed something? (Peter, ITO World?) > > Incidentally, I just came across this page: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Train_routing which seems to mostly > date from 2007, but has some useful information (and diagrams) in it, > that could be worth merging into the Railways page > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railways). > > Frankie > > -- > Frankie Roberto > Experience Designer, Rattle > 0114 2706977 > http://www.rattlecentral.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit > _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
