On 4 Sep 2009, at 11:24, 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.
Looks good. But lets also link to graphserver.
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.
Full data is available with GT for the South East Traveline region
which covers Bedford, Bracknell Forest, Brighton and Hove,
Buckinghamshire, Central Bedfordshire, East Sussex, Essex,
Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Luton, Medway, Milton Keynes,
Oxfordshire, Reading, Slough, Southend-on-Sea, Surrey, Thurrock, West
Berkshire, West Sussex, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham
With this data came the national coaches database which gives some
service information elsewhere in the country. I understand that more
regions may provide their data to GT over time.
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.
Sure, using route relations, however we do need a timetable service
available to complete the data. The route relations approach will
actually be pretty unreliable in make situations for traditional
planning purposes but lets see what it can do.
Is anyone currently looking at this? I know of http://www.öpnvkarte.de/
, which displays public transport routes, but I don't know of any
experimental routing services yet. Have I missed something? (Peter,
ITO World?)
No, we are not, but I am promoting opnvkarte locally and would be very
supportive of such work where we could.
Regards,
Peter
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
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Frankie Roberto
Experience Designer, Rattle
0114 2706977
http://www.rattlecentral.com
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