Just an FYI/general info announcement. I'm working with fellow mapper MDroads <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mdroads> (and any other OSM editors of course) to map bus routes of Maryland Transit Administration bus lines throughout the Baltimore region of Maryland.
I'm doing my best to adhere to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport though the relations for stops are *very* tedious. Therefore, phase one has been getting the route relations mapped. Once complete, I'll look at adding bus stops as public_transport=platform. I made a non-OSM map of all the stops from an MTA dataset but many of the data points are quite far off and are generally unsuitable for OSM. ( my map is on my blog <http://www.elliottplack.com/2012/10/map-of-all-mta-maryland-stops.html> ) The stop data is utilized by Google Maps for its transit routing, and as a transit rider, I often find the inaccuracy of the data annoying. The data is from Trapeze, a bus routing product, and is not considered accurate by the MTA for map purposes. I've added more to the wiki for any interested parties at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Baltimore,_Maryland/Bus_Routes Explore the routes on the OSM slippy map at http://osm.org/go/ZZfUax2?layers=T ----- http://about.me/elliottp | http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ElliottPlack -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Bus-Route-Mapping-in-Baltimore-tp5743499.html Sent from the USA mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
