Hi Sajjad, I propose to use Google API itself to extract some information. How is this violating G M terms of service ? But it is subject to test whether really we can scrape out good data from it or not.
Regards, Suvajit On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:11:22 AM UTC+5:30, Sajjad Anwar wrote: > > Hey, > > On Feb 19, 2014 10:34 AM, "Suvajit" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > > Good job Thej & Sajjd on scraping BMTC stop & route info from their > website and presenting on OSM. > > > > But I am sure that if we count bus stations in Bangalore it will have > 1000 stops more ( around 4000 in total ). So we need to find those missing > ones. > > Google Map has better list of bus stations for Bangalore than BMTC. But > unfortunately GMap does not provide API to get that information directly. > > I found a workaround where Google Local search provides bus stations in > a given locality. > > So quite an amount on scrapping work can be done on Google Map itself to > extract bus_stations. I will give try in spare time. > > Just a word of caution - this is against Google Maps / Search Terms of > Service <https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html>. Even if you > scrape the data out we cannot use it in any meaningful way. > > > > > On the live tracking point, BMTC already awarded a project last year to > put tracking devices in all its fleet (6500+ buses). The project is > expected to complete end of this year. In that case, if the system works > well we can get the GPS logs of BMTC buses. > > This can help us both in live update and also accurate route and stop > database building. > > > > Also BMTC has floated a tender for digitization of schedules. If this > project is on, we can expect to get accurate bus stop, route and schedule > information from BMTC. In fact, we can ask BMTC to publish their data in > GTFS format which we can use to build services/solutions on top of it. > > > > Sajjad, > > What license are you asking about ? License to publish GTFS data ? > > > > Regards, > > Suvajit > > > > > > On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8:51:30 PM UTC+5:30, Thejesh GN wrote: > >> > >> Is it live somewhere? > >> > >> -- > >> Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ > >> http://thejeshgn.com > >> GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 > >> > >> On Feb 18, 2014 8:27 PM, "srinivas kodali" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> I was going through the BMTC technical document to implement Expected > Time of Arrival (ETA) for Buses in Bangalore. > >>> > >>> Scrapping real-time data would be more fun. if they won`t give API`s > >>> > >>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Meera <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> If anybody want to develop any public data tools/widgets like bus > routes - we can embed it on bangalore.citizenmatters.in/data-tools as > objects. > >>>> It can help general junta to access it easily. > >>>> > >>>> -Meera > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Sajjad Anwar <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> OSM allows gtfs tags - > >>>>> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/General_Transit_Feed_Specification > >>>>> Since GTFS is a widely accepted standard. > >>>>> > >>>>> I'm asking some friends at OSM about uploading the bus stop data to > >>>>> the repository. Since we scraped it there might be a challenge. Do > you > >>>>> know what license BMTC publishes this in? > >>>>> > >>>>> Cheers, > >>>>> Sajjad. > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Thejesh GN <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>>>> > We can. > >>>>> > > >>>>> > But if there is OSM version of the same, i will prefer that. > >>>>> > > >>>>> > -- > >>>>> > Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್ > >>>>> > http://thejeshgn.com > >>>>> > GPG ID : 0xBFFC8DD3C06DD6B0 > >>>>> > > >>>>> > On Feb 18, 2014 5:27 PM, "Sajjad Anwar" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> On a second thought and while talking people, it might make sense > to > >>>>> >> publish this data in the GTFS format > >>>>> >> (https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/) > >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> -- > >>>>> >> For more details about this list > >>>>> >> http://datameet.org/discussions/ > >>>>> >> --- > >>>>> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the > Google Groups > >>>>> >> "datameet" group. > >>>>> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an > >>>>> >> email to [email protected]. > >>>>> > >>>>> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >>>>> > > >>>>> > -- > >>>>> > For more details about this list > >>>>> > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > >>>>> > --- > >>>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >>>>> > "datameet" group. > >>>>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an > >>>>> > email to [email protected]. > >>>>> > >>>>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> Sajjad Anwar http://geohacker.in > >>>>> > >>>>> -- > >>>>> For more details about this list > >>>>> http://datameet.org/discussions/ > >>>>> --- > >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "datameet" group. > >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to [email protected]. > >>>>> > >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> For more details about this list > >>>> http://datameet.org/discussions/ > >>>> --- > >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "datameet" group. > >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to [email protected]. > >>>> > >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> For more details about this list > >>> http://datameet.org/discussions/ > >>> --- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "datameet" group. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > >>> > >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > > For more details about this list > > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "datameet" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. 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