In message on 4 Sep 2009, 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 I would hope that in due course Traveline might be able to help with this. Interesting discussions are continuing but no decisions yet. -- Peter J Stoner UK Regional Coordinator www.travelinedata.org.uk Traveline a trading name of Intelligent Travel Solutions Ltd company number 3826797 Drury House, 34-43 Russell Street, LONDON WC2B 5HA - find Traveline on facebook at www.facebook.com/pages/Traveline/125717190651 _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
