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 into JOSM.

Cheerio John


On 2 April 2014 12:29, Florian Lohoff <f...@zz.de> wrote:

>
> 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 consolidated approach to not only bus stops (which i take
> as solved) but time table, live data etc? Probably Germany only?
>
> What file format is the "defakto" standard. Is GTFS the solution
> and one day all data consumers for public transport will use GTFS?
>
> I think currently the whish for locals is to simply take the data
> and have some nice clickable map with timetables and all those
> bells and whistles. I havent seen that approach yet so i ask.
>
> Flo
> --
> Florian Lohoff                                                 f...@zz.de
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