On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Cartinus wrote: > Up till now I used the "node in the road" method. But lately I have been > thinking about how routing applications would use osm data. I doubt bus > companies will be using osm to route their busses. But when routing for > pedestrians, you will want to be able to reach the bus stops.
Bus companies may not want to to use it for routing, but someone else might want to run a route planner for getting from A to B by public transport and on foot (there is one run by the UK government already I think?). This would need to take account of bus stop location, direction as well as data from other sources such as bus timetables. I think this is the one I was thinking of: http://www.transportdirect.info - Steve xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nexusuk.org/ Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
