Hello, I was looking at: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/transit/partners/participate.html
It sounds as though over 500 cities are doing all the hard work to process their transit data into a standard form and hosting it somewhere for Google to pick up. I would guess that, with all the hard work done, at least some of these cities could be convinced to allow OSM to grab a copy of the google_transit.zip file and add it to the map. Has anybody looked into this idea? Where the regional authority is doing all of the hard work, it seems a far more sensible approach to obtain current data this way than for individuals to add relations manually: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bus_routes It looks as though Wellington, NZ uses this service properly: http://google-au.blogspot.com/2009/08/transit-information-comes-to-google.html And there is an announcement about Auckland (though I can't see it working on the actual Google map): http://google-newzealand.blogspot.com/2009/12/mapping-out-public-transit-options-in.html I also came across this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/jgui/an-open-source-multimodal-journey-planning-system-based-on-de-facto-standards Regards, Aaron _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
