You may be interested to know that in the UK the government working with Traveline are proposing to make all bus timetables open data in April 2012. http://travelinedata.org.uk/opendata.htm
In message <[email protected]> Alexander Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > I got this email in response to one that I had sent. It has to do with GTFS > data that we could possibly use in OSM. As you can see, the company > responsible for creating the data is supportive of the idea, but noted > that it > is up to the individual transit providers to license the data. Tell me what > you think. > And I know that OSM isn't a "Wikipedia for mapping", but the differences > probably aren't significant to people not involved directly with both. > -Alexander > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > Subject: Re: OpenStreetMap > Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 10:29:45 > From: Aaron Antrim <[email protected]> > To: Alexander Jones <[email protected]> > CC: Keith Martin <[email protected]> > Hi Alexander, > Thank you for your email. Trillium does not have rights to license Yuba- > Sutter Transit GTFS data. Those rights are for the Yuba-Sutter Transit to > assign. The agency has chosen to make their data public, however without a > license: http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/agency/yuba-sutter-transit/ > I'd encourage the data to be integrated with OSM. > Trillium works for many other public transit agencies, most of which have > public GTFS data. I'd be happy to encourage those agencies to integrated > their data in OSM. Let me know how I can help make this happen. > Competition, > options, and open data are good for everyone. > Cheers, > Aaron -- Peter J Stoner UK Coordinator http://travelinedata.org.uk Traveline Traveline Information Ltd company number 3826797 Drury House, 34-43 Russell Street, LONDON WC2B 5HA _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
