For Clacton - and indeed for any part of the SE, EM and EA traveline regions, the interactive maps on the sites allow right-clicking on any road link to show the current services using each road link.
In 95% of cases these will be accurate - the other 5% the automatic routing algorithm may have misplaced a service (and we occasionally find some unexplained bugs which need to be referred back to our system supplier). My view is that this information is so transient that it is not something that I would feel comfortable seeing added to base cartography - in the public transport information world we have a clear split between "infrastructure" (the stops) and "services" (which are more transient and have a range of other attributes that make them quite different from an element of the local infrastructure). As someone "outside" the OSM community, therefore, I would be encouraging OSMers to think carefully about the boundary between what can sensibly be held in OSM and what really ought to come on the fly from another source, where the data management is in terms of weekly updates or more frequent. Best wishes Roger -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Loach Sent: 22 October 2009 15:38 To: 'Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics' Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] NaPTAN case study > I forgot to add: I agree with Peter, please drop the route_ref > tag as a > requirement for completed stops. Most of the stops in Hull > have no > route info on the stop signs. And in Clacton some signs do (in which case I add the tag) and some don't. Those that do might not have kept up with changing routes however so may be wrong. Adding routes is something I'll be doing at some point, but won't be relying on the route numbers on the signs. I did drive along behind the 137 one morning until it took a bus only road... Ed _______________________________________________ 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
