Barbeau, Sean wrote: > Alexander, > In my opinion, getting written permission from the Transit Manager at the > transit agency should be adequate. They are essentially agreeing to the > OSM license by giving you permission to upload, and you are their proxy > for the upload.
Got it. > Unfortunately GO-Sync was developed prior the Public Transport proposal > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport), > so it is not fully supported. Since GTFS only defines bus stop position > (and not position of amenities or location where bus actually stops), bus > stop position is what GO-Sync syncs, and all attributes are considered > tags for the bus stop node. So, the stop schema is not currently > supported. GO-Sync does support the route schema, but Khoa reminded me > that the XAPI server is still having issues with relations, which are > required to sync a route, so the route syncing capabilities aren't > currently functional. I already did the routes, but what I need are the stops... > We did a paper and presentation at the ITS World Congress last year on the > tool, and these are the best resources for details on how the tool works: > Khoa Tran, Ed Hillsman, Sean J. Barbeau, and Miguel Labrador. "GO! Sync - > A Framework to Synchronize Crowd-Sourced Mapping Contributions From Online > Communities and Transit Agency Bus Stop Inventories," Proceedings of the > 2011 ITS World Congress, Orlando, FL, October 18, 2011. Paper - > http://goo.gl/9dxxS Presentation - http://goo.gl/n5V9z > > We'd definitely welcome any collaboration if someone wants to try and > update the tool to consider items in the Public Transport approved > proposal. I did some Java programming a while back. I've been doing more in Python recently, but maybe I could take a look at the code and see what I could do. -Alexander _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
