Hello everybody! In the past months, as you probably read here, I mapped almost entirely the bus network of Padova, Italy. Result: all the stops are there, almost all route relations (except some variations of a route which happen once a day), now duplicating them with both directions). I presented my work at OSMit 2010 including a review of the different tools available with their pro and cons (slideshow available in Italian here: https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AX90JH2rM34XZGR6cGJoczlfODU3anM2emgzcA&hl=it ). Fellow mappers started mapping other towns in Italy (Ferrara, Milan), some tools were improved a lot: Roland Olbricht added loads of features to the sketch generator, City Advisor and Metro applications for smartphones respectively added features to easily import a list of stops with name and location from OSM in CSV format or updates of the database with my data...
But I realized there was not (or if there is I didn't find it!) a unique open source platform for public transport but many separated tools, all with their pro and cons...A unique platform (as Google Transit) would be a killer application for public transport data on OSM. Imagine to: - view a map of the entire network of a specific area (OPNVKarte, OSMTransport, LatLon) - specify the desired level of detail showing one, two...all routes (OSMTransport) and possibility of showing different renderings - click over a line on the map/select the line from a list and see the sketch of that line with all the stops and with the desired level of details as correspondences, P+R, train stations, etc... (Roland Olbricht Sketch Generator) - click over a line on the map/select the line from a list to see its operating hours, frequency, timetables, wheelchair accessibility and other important details (no OSM-derived website supports this at the moment) - have door-to-door/stop-to-stop routing using OSM data + timetables or frequency information (no no OSM-derived website supports this at the moment - for example of competitors: Google Transit, http://imetro.nanika.net) - download the data (database, timetables, maps) for use in mobile phones with designed applications (for example City Advisor for Windows Mobile) or provide a simplified interface for mobile browsers or SMS-based requests. - provide local transport authorities tools to render timetables, sketch of routes, proximity maps of each stop for internal use or for users at each stop all of this on the same platform/website! Unfortunately, I don't have the programming skills to build such a platform, but I'm writing here to see if any of you is interested either in the programming either (like I would do to contribute to the project) in the testing, support, design, translations and documentation.The project could be then advertised through local representatives at local transport authorities so they can adopt it. In these months I aquired expertise in this field and have found interesting contacts with possible partners in this project, so I would be delighted to give my best to make this project possible. A test city could be Padova, whose local transport authority doesn't have such a tool and which has a complete mapping of stops. Waiting for your reactions :) ciao Tiziano
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