Hi Has anyone looked at using TNDS (http://traveline.info/tnds.html) as a basis for importing bus routes into OSM? I've had a quick look at the data and it looks like it would be possible to extract at least the stop ordering for each route. In theory it can also have the road routes between stops, but the local routes I looked at (Stagecoach Cambridge) only have the stops, not the routes between them. Still, even the stop list would a good start.
The background here is that while updating my local area and removing a bus route that no longer runs through there, I ended up rebuilding the whole route by hand from timetable information as the OSM route relation was quite out of date and had missing road sections/stops/etc. Looking at other routes in the area, they have similar errors. Transcribing routes by hand is quite a lot of work - just the one route I did took a couple of hours to get right. A related issue is that the stop information imported from NaPTAN is getting out of date. The TNDS data uses NaPTAN stop references and - at least around Cambridge - there are some new stops in the TNDS routes that don't exist at all in the current OSM data. Is there an existing mechanism to update the NaPTAN data? Or what would be the right way to add the missing stops? Oliver
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