Mark, I would suggest that you also post these questions on the Transit Developers Google Group (http://groups.google.com/group/transit-developers), if you haven't already. GTFS comes up very often in discussions there, and you might be able to find people with similar objectives on that list.
Sean Sean J. Barbeau, M.S. Comp.Sci. Research Associate - Location-Aware Information Systems Center for Urban Transportation Research University of South Florida -----Original Message----- From: talk-transit-requ...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-transit-requ...@openstreetmap.org] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 7:01 AM To: talk-transit@openstreetmap.org Subject: Talk-transit Digest, Vol 30, Issue 1 Send Talk-transit mailing list submissions to talk-transit@openstreetmap.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to talk-transit-requ...@openstreetmap.org You can reach the person managing the list at talk-transit-ow...@openstreetmap.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Talk-transit digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Open Data Trip Planner (Mark Lester) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 07:23:28 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Lester <mc_les...@yahoo.co.uk> To: "talk-transit@openstreetmap.org" <talk-transit@openstreetmap.org> Subject: [Talk-transit] Open Data Trip Planner Message-ID: <1310019808.8032.yahoomail...@web28516.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I've been knocking about the whole idea of route planning in places where there is next to no online information currently available, e.g. bus operators, both public and certainly private, for just about anywhere you might need a visa for. Part of what I was thinking about is probably done herehttp://www.everytrail.com/ though that's highly commercial and while they've got a lot of data (mostly in US and western europe), I'm still curious as to what is happening with the humongous amounts of GPX data on OSM, other than the obvious purpose of tracing. Is there any external repository of descriptive/qualitative info on these trails ?. Of course few people are going to GPS their bus route anyway. They'll just be able to tell us "I got a bus from here to there, it started at X oclock and took Y hours and cost Z sheckles". So not very useful for OSM, but there's currently nowhere for people to put this data other than their blog. Transiki.org was an attempt to start a discussion on this. The motivation was more to do with patching incorrect stuff that's already online, but it's as good as the same idea. I've talked a little with the OTP (OpenTripPlanner) gang, and played about a bit with their cool stuff. The missing link right now is something to manage these GTFS fles. There are plans afoot at OTP to produce something cool for that, but right now my only option is to hack the google TransitDataFeed stuff into some kind of instance with wiki-ness just to get something to stand up, and I'll worry about the consequences later. Is anyone else interested in this, or knows any people or projects that are ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-transit/attachments/20110707/cfa0323c/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit End of Talk-transit Digest, Vol 30, Issue 1 ******************************************* _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
