On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Roland Olbricht <[email protected]> wrote: > capabilities to solve conflicts immediately. I've extended the Public > Transport Plug-In to offer an experimental GTFS import (for stops only at the > moment). The aim of this software is to avoid cluttering the database with
Fantastic! > moment, the stops as treated as bus stops, because I can't find a stop type in > the GTFS specification. One design goal of GTFS was to represent things in a way that matches the rider's model of the world as closely as possible. Therefore, a stop doesn't have a single inherent vehicle type, because there are many stops which are serviced by multiple types of vehicles (for instance, both buses and street-running trams). It'd be possible to artificially create two semantic stops with the same name at the same location, one for each vehicle type, but that wouldn't match the rider's perception when they look at a single shelter/sign and see a single stop. In order to determine which types of vehicles stop at a particular stop point in GTFS data, you need to cross-reference the stops table with the routes and stop_times tables. Cheers, Joe _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
