I would directly include the GTFS data in OpenStreetMap. Best to use it as a 
combined dataset in a journey planner such as OpenTripPlanner.

Shaun

On 9 December 2024 20:38:51 GMT, Aenet Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:
>Thanks Shaun.
>
>I just checked and CATA (Lansing, MI) does have a GTFS feed. It’s available
><
>https://www.cata.org/About-Contact/Doing-Business-with-CATA/Developer-Resources>
>with a not fully open license <
>https://www.cata.org/Portals/0/CATAGTFSLicenseAgreement20150323.pdf> that
>allows credentials to access the GTFS feed. I’m not sure whether that would
>be appropriate to use for OSM. I’m wondering what advice would be for use
>of that. I’ll request a license and ask CATA what their opinion is.
>
>
>Aenet
>
>p.s. Sorry about the ugly links, I couldn’t get them to work properly on
>mobile.
>
>On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 2:45 PM Shaun McDonald <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>> I'd use GTFS to define the schedule as that is far better suited to this,
>> especially considering that the timetable can frequently change.
>>
>> Having just the shape in OpenStreetMap is probably good enough.
>>
>>
>> Shaun
>>
>>
>> On 9 December 2024 18:20:33 GMT, Aenet Anthony <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I started using OSM fairly recently and one thing I've been working on in
>>> my city is improving the route relations for public transit (bus only in my
>>> city). This has included cleaning the ways included in the routes (such as
>>> including the entirety of roundabouts instead of just the portion used,
>>> having many gaps, roads out of order, or roads included multiple times when
>>> they should not be) as well as creating new relations when both outbound
>>> and inbound are mapped together or for route variants.
>>>
>>> Now on the topic of route variants, I'm wondering what that best practice
>>> is for marking opening_hours (as mentioned on the Buses wiki page
>>> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Buses#Step_2_-_Create_the_new_bus_relations>),
>>> particularly when multiple buses may be at different points within the
>>> route when the opening_hours status changes from one to the other. *Should
>>> the time be based on when the first and last bus on the variant leave from
>>> the starting point or when there is the first difference between the two
>>> routes *(like the first time that the bus stops at one bus stop instead
>>> of another)? I tried to do some searching on the wiki, the old and new help
>>> forums, and the web in general, as well as looking at the guides on the
>>> wiki pages for public transit, the route relation page, and the buses page,
>>> but I was not able to find any specific advice on how I should map the
>>> hours (and I wasn't able to find a specific switch time from my transit
>>> agency either).
>>>
>>> For reference, the bus route I am referring to initially departs the
>>> starting stop at 05:25, arriving at the first different stop at 05:53. Each
>>> bus on this route continues to depart for the variant until the last one
>>> (in the morning) on the variant leaves at 07:55 and arrives at the first
>>> different stop at 08:23, ultimately reaching the final destination stop at
>>> 08:37. However, before that bus has arrived at the stop, the next bus on
>>> the route switches to the non-variant form of the route and departs at
>>> 08:10, reaching the first different stop at 08:42. It then continues on
>>> this route until the last bus (in the afternoon) on the main route departs
>>> at 15:34. The variant bus then departs at 15:46, running until the final
>>> variant bus (of the entire day) departs at 16:58, reaching its destination
>>> at 17:40. The main route bus departs again at 17:10 and continues until the
>>> last one on this route departs at 23:00 and finally reaches its destination
>>> at 23:35. For anyone wishing to look at this route themselves here is
>>> the master relation <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4271833> and 
>>> here
>>> is my transit agency's schedule <https://www.cata.org/schedules/01/1>.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Aenet
>>>
>>
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