On 18 Dec 2008, at 17:28, Joe Hughes wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Hugh Barnes <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I can sympathise with your pragmatism, and was starting realise that >> must be what's behind your choice. Sad but true. I still think while >> you can accept CSV, you should want to cast into XML pretty soon to >> make it nice to work with. Ultimately, it's possibly not that >> important. > > [snip] > > Additionally, Nick Knowles and our own Peter Miller have done some > interesting work attempting to reconcile the implicit GTFS data model > with TransModel--Peter, is your latest document publicly available > online somewhere? Devising an XML schema that allowed lossless > conversion to and from GTFS would be an interesting project. >
We have now uploaded the paper Joe refers and also a powerpoint presentation that summarises the key points for a standards audience. It was prepared for discussion in the CEN and ISO standards community - the whole issue of data standards and the interchange of PT data is being discussed at ISO at present, and there is a parallel proposal within CEN for a new European XML timetable exchange schema to replace a number of national and proprietary standards. http://www.transmodel.org.uk/index.htm Regards, Peter > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
