Hi, Generally I've not mapped public transport routes as they are often available in GTFS and can change often. Longer distance routes often have some variation between the stops depending on the traffic conditions. I've got a local route near me where the bus approaches the stop from the wrong direction so uses one of two different blocks to turnaround depending on how the driver feels and what the road conditions are like. How to consider scenarios like that?
Shaun On 24 November 2024 02:49:13 GMT, 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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