On 18 Dec 2008, at 17:28, Joe Hughes wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Hugh Barnes <list....@hughbris.com> > 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. > > Public transport schedule data tends to be so voluminous that "nice to > work with" generally means putting it into a database in any case. > However, for those who are more comfortable working with XML, there's > GTFS-to-TransXChange conversion code by Joachim Pheiffer in the > "GoogleTransitDataFeed" open-source project: > http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/ > > 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.
Sorry for the delay Joe. We are just waiting for confirmation that we can publicise the document you refer to. I am sure there is not a problem, but we need to wait for a response before going ahead. Peter > > > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
