[Talk-transit] Public Transport Plugin

2010-02-24 Thread Roland Olbricht
Hello everybody, the Public Transport Plugin for JOSM has been updated and has now a comprehensive documentation at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/public_transport Any comment welcome. Cheers, Roland ___ Talk-transit mailing list Ta

[Talk-transit] Line diagrams

2010-02-24 Thread Roland Olbricht
Hello everybody, to encourage mapping public transport, Tiziano and I have developed a line diagram generator that displays nice diagrams from (sufficiently properly mapped) bus routes. A showroom example is http://78.46.81.38/misc/showroom.svg generated by the URL http://78.46.81.38/api/sketch

[Talk-transit] RFC on interchanging data

2010-02-24 Thread Roland Olbricht
Hello everybody, What is the consensus on how to map interchange data? I would like connect two (or more) bus stops and/or railway stations to indicate that you can preferably change vehicles there (e.g. the bus stop(s) that is/are intended to change into a nearby train station). This is often

[Talk-transit] RFC on tram stops

2010-02-24 Thread Roland Olbricht
Hello everybody, What is the consensus on how to map tram stops? I've found "highway=tram_stop" as well as "railway_tram_stop". The wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Trams says nothing about that. Cheers, Roland ___ Talk-transit mailing li

Re: [Talk-transit] RFC on interchanging data

2010-02-24 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Hello Roland, you hit the nail on the head: public_transport:stop_area relations are the way to go. At least I keep mapping stations/stops with interchange possibilities like that. Please do not forget about stop_area_group as well as these relations are used to denote interchanging possibilites

Re: [Talk-transit] RFC on tram stops

2010-02-24 Thread Claudius Henrichs
Hello Roland, My first reply would be: public_transport=stop_position/platform tram=yes If you want to keep backward compatibility definitely go for railway=tram_stop because trams are considered part of the railway network. I've never heard about nor seen any actually tagged as highway=tram_st

Re: [Talk-transit] Line diagrams

2010-02-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote: > Hello everybody, > > to encourage mapping public transport, Tiziano and I have developed a line > diagram generator that displays nice diagrams from (sufficiently properly > mapped) bus routes. A showroom example is > http://78.46.81.38/mi

Re: [Talk-transit] Line diagrams

2010-02-24 Thread Melchior Moos
Wow, well done! 2010/2/24 Roland Olbricht > Hello everybody, > > to encourage mapping public transport, Tiziano and I have developed a line > diagram generator that displays nice diagrams from (sufficiently properly > mapped) bus routes. A showroom example is > http://78.46.81.38/misc/showroom.s

Re: [Talk-transit] RFC on interchanging data

2010-02-24 Thread Peter Miller
On 24 Feb 2010, at 17:24, Claudius Henrichs wrote: > Hello Roland, > you hit the nail on the head: public_transport:stop_area relations > are the way to go. At least I keep mapping stations/stops with > interchange possibilities like that. Please do not forget about > stop_area_group as wel

Re: [Talk-transit] Public Transport Plugin

2010-02-24 Thread David Murn
Hi all, Slightly off-topic post for this list, but Ive been looking at using something like this plugin to map bus routes and similar in my area, as I have an unlocked PNA which is perfectly suited for the purpose. Unfortunately (afaik) there has never existed a JVM/JRE for pocket devices such as