As a rule, if somewhere large like a hospital is built then bus companies will change their routes to serve it.
More local health centres are built to serve their local area, if you live in a settlement of a reasonable size you will expect the local health centre to be walkable without using public transport. Phil (trigpoint) On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 18:48 -0400, john whelan wrote: > >Here proximity to to a train station is worth more money than > proximity to a bus stop.Within 1 km of a train station is where > developers and purchases of apartments want them and they will pay > more for that proximity. > > Train stations are usually well represented in OSM data.Bus stops are > not so well represented, this will depend on the local mappers so it > is area dependant. > > Perhaps I didn't state the problem clearly enough. > > If I have two possible sites for a health centre which will be more > easily accessible? > > Assume the bus and tram stops are mapped and the route relationship > is in place. Assume the same is true if it is rail. If the proposed > sites for the health centre are not on the railway line then the rail > is probably irrelevant. > > One method might be to plot a path from each building to the health > centre by walking, car and bicycle then see how many can reach it > within x minutes. That is a lot of routing calculation to do but it > can be done overnight or even over a couple of days. You would then > have to go through each travel plan and count the ones less than 10 > minutes or 45 minutes or whatever time you decide is the cut off > point. > > Google I think has travel times for public transport available on its > maps under directions. I think for some cities we have the same > information available, the GTFS file and locations but can we do > travel times for public transport and how would you do it?. > > At the moment I don't think there is a good solution but someone > might have some ideas on how to do it. > > Thanks John > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
