Shouldn't we keep the schema to something that is easily compatible with the Google Transit GTFS format instead of developing something different all together? I believe the GTFS was developed after extensive research on how transit companies actually manage their data and how that data can be used for routing. On the plus side the entire specification documentation and tools have been released under cc-by-sa. in addition to which transit agencies are making their feed public too<http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds>, making it easy to update routes.
I haven't had the time to go through the proposed osm transit schema in detail, but i would hope that in the end, it would allow easy conversion to and from GTFS. This hasnt got anything to do with me supporting google transit, but just that i feel that the format is quite comprehensive and indepth, And in future when an OSM transit app comes out, agencies would be able to easily publish their data in the OSM schema as well without much hassle. -- http://j.mp/ArunGanesh
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