Hi there, This is openplans.org? is the opentrip planner able to use osm data directly? https://github.com/openplans/OpenTripPlanner
what are you plans, please explain, thanks mike On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > On 8/18/2012 3:56 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> >> maybe the existence of an OSM-to-GTFS converter could be misunderstood >> by some as an invitation to upload OSM transit data to Google's database? > > > I would go further and say that the existence of GTFS data itself would be > an invitation to upload to Google's database. Even if I instruct the > current staff about licensing issues, any new personnel would find it > reasonable that they should upload to Google. > > And the data files themselves don't have a standard for embedding copyright > information. This is because Google's Transit Content Agreement pretty > much requires that all rights be assigned to Google anyway. > http://odd.greatergreaterwashington.org/files/2010/stdgoogletransit.pdf > > So since the GTFS files include shape and stop geo data directly derived > from OSM data, my project is pretty much a dead issue for licensing reasons. > So the OpenTripPlanner experiment will remain a publicly accessible private > toy on my personal server. > > As an almost related note, I hope the mobile Kickstarter project takes off > - my private site will be much more usable from a mobile device: > > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/228865951/transit-app-for-ios-6-and-beyond > > If it makes its goal, I also hope they include a "Pull the stop rope now" > - type of function. If someone takes public transit to a new location, > there is little chance of them recognizing an upcoming stop. I suppose they > could ask the driver to stop somewhere however. > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk