[Talk-transit] GTFS and the like

2014-04-02 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, i am now that busy with public transport but i got a mail from the regional public transport authority who show interest in publishing data or work together with OSM. I am not really the public transport guru, i just read a bit here and there and had looked at the GTFS stuff. Is there a cons

Re: [Talk-transit] GTFS and the like

2014-04-02 Thread Mike N
On 4/2/2014 12:29 PM, Florian Lohoff wrote: What file format is the "defakto" standard. Is GTFS the solution and one day all data consumers for public transport will use GTFS? GTFS is the most popular standard, and nearly a universal way to represent public transport route and timetable info

Re: [Talk-transit] GTFS and the like

2014-04-02 Thread Janko Mihelić
Although I think timetable data could be in OSM, there is no standard defined yet. GTFS is probably your best choice right now. I never tried synchronizing GTFS data with OSM routes and stations, so I can't help you with that. Dana 2. 4. 2014. 18:29 osoba "Florian Lohoff" napisala je: > > > Hi, >

Re: [Talk-transit] GTFS and the like

2014-04-02 Thread john whelan
The thing to watch out for with GTFS data is the stop location. Some transit systems have very accurate data, such as Ottawa, typically is used for announcements on buses for blind people, others have bus stops that can be 300 meters out. There are tools to import the bus stops from the GTFS file

Re: [Talk-transit] GTFS and the like

2014-04-02 Thread Jan
Hello, your questions are not easy. In europe I think there are two companys who dialing with customer timetable imformation. That is hacon and Mentz. Thes two companys have there own fileformat. Hafas or Diva. But thats not all! The companys for planing like IVU have also a own format called inf