Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Adam Schreiber wrote: >> I wound be very interested to see the first time that a transport >> authority took a person to court for promoting their services but >> there may be a first time! I do suggest that this is a different >> project from OSM though. > > Yes,

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread Elena of Valhalla
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Peter Miller wrote: > I wound be very interested to see the first time that a transport > authority took a person to court for promoting their services but > there may be a first time! actually, I seem to remember reading on either slashdot or theregister that it

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread Ben Laenen
On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Elena of Valhalla wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Peter Miller wrote: > > I wound be very interested to see the first time that a transport > > authority took a person to court for promoting their services but > > there may be a first time! > > actually, I

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread Peter Miller
On 17 Dec 2008, at 15:25, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:02:17PM +, Peter Miller wrote: > >> There is not however a problem as far as I know in people >> collecting their own timetable information from printed material >> and entering it into a common DV. > I haven't c

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread OJ W
How about making an iphone app where people can just type in "I just saw the 555 bus go past"? After a few samples you have a timetable. Or some place where people can upload timestamped tracklogs if they catch a bus. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstr

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Peter Miller wrote: > > On 17 Dec 2008, at 15:25, Sascha Silbe wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:02:17PM +, Peter Miller wrote: >> >>> There is not however a problem as far as I know in people >>> collecting their own timetable information from printed m

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I don't see why this needs to be a separate project. We already have > Key:opening_hours for amenities, why not Tag:highway:bus_stop with > additional tags that describe when each bus line stops there and a > relation to map the greater bus route. That should be sufficient > information to map th

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread Andy Street
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 19:59 +, OJ W wrote: > How about making an iphone app where people can just type in "I just > saw the 555 bus go past"? After a few samples you have a timetable. Not if they run their services like one or two bus companies I know! ;o) I suppose it could be quite interes

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread Peter Miller
On 17 Dec 2008, at 18:29, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Adam Schreiber > wrote: >>> I wound be very interested to see the first time that a transport >>> authority took a person to court for promoting their services but >>> there may be a first time! I do su

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Peter Miller wrote: > I wound be very interested to see the first time that a transport > authority took a person to court for promoting their services but > there may be a first time! I do suggest that this is a different > project from OSM though. We have had bus companies reject our

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread OJ W
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Andy Street wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 19:59 +, OJ W wrote: >> How about making an iphone app where people can just type in "I just >> saw the 555 bus go past"? After a few samples you have a timetable. > > Not if they run their services like one or two bu

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-17 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Peter Miller wrote: > I wound be very interested to see the first time that a transport > authority took a person to court for promoting their services but > there may be a first time! I do suggest that this is a different > project from OSM though. Like this? Berlin Metro Bans Free iPhone

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-18 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:30:31 + "OJ W" wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Andy Street > wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 19:59 +, OJ W wrote: > >> How about making an iphone app where people can just type in "I > >> just saw the 555 bus go past"? After a few samples you have a > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-18 Thread Peter Miller
On 18 Dec 2008, at 10:49, Hugh Barnes wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:30:31 + > "OJ W" wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Andy Street >> wrote: >>> On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 19:59 +, OJ W wrote: How about making an iphone app where people can just type in "I just saw the

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-18 Thread Simon Ward
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:19:02PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Rather than try to centralize everything we know about the world into > OSM, we would be better off figuring out how multiple databases can be > tightly connected. There’s the added bonus that when you make a project independent fro

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-18 Thread Andy Allan
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Peter Miller wrote: > I assure you public transport timetables are very complex and one most > certainly can't implement it as tags to the OSM model. Given that we have * Unlimited numbers of key/value pairs per object * Recursivable objects (relations of relati

Re: [OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

2008-12-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
>I used to catch a train which was exactly 15 minutes late every day >(for a year or more). Writing down when it actually leaves rather >than when the timetable says it should leave, would be quite useful >for someone planning to take that train... Sounds like the dreaded 17:35 from Bath to South