Sounds wonderful but post on talk-ca for the local mappers in Quebec. John
On Sat, Nov 23, 2024, 21:52 Pascal Bourgault, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I started contributing to OSM regularly not so long ago and, so far, I > mostly dealt with infrastructure and shops in my area. I realized that > the bus going from my town to the next big city was missing from the > data, which is not so surprising as it is a small company with only 5 > runs a week. > > But I also realized that none of the inter-regional commercial bus lines > I know of were present in OSM. Like, public (as in government-run) urban > transit is there and the rail network also. I'm thinking things like > Greyhound, Flixbus, Megabus and the like, so privately run companies > that offer public (as in "mass") transit options, on regular, well > defined lines. Also, I am using "inter-regional" as in "from city to > city", to a scale larger than urban systems. > > Digging a bit, I think one of the reason might be that urban public > transit societies often make their lines, stops and timetables available > through GTFS files, while privately run companies do not. On the other > hand, inter-regional lines are often made of only a few stops, so doing > manually shouldn't be _that_ hard ? > > Furthermore, I checked the websites of the few largest such companies in > my region and I'm pretty sure I could set up some relatively simple > web-scraping scripts to extract the data. Leaving out the timetables, > the process should be not to hard and updates wouldn't be that frequent. > > > So what does the community here think of such a plan ? Is there another > reason than amount of work needed that explains why there are so few > commercial bus lines on OSM ? > > > In my region (Québec, Canada), rail service is a shame. It seems to me > that making OSM-based routing apps aware of the inter-regional bus lines > could be a plus for the end users. > > > Thanks! > > -- > > Pascal > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit >
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