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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/11/2018 20:24, Paul Allen wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 7:44 PM Philip Barnes <<a
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<div>In the UK traveline already provide this service
and use OSM. In fact they are part of the OSM
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<div>Erm, nope. See <a href="https://www.traveline.cymru/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.traveline.cymru/</a></div>
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FWIW I've just used <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.traveline.info/">https://www.traveline.info/</a> to find journey
between Porthmadog and Criccieth and Bearsden and Milton of Campsie
(yes! There are ones at this time of night!) so the main site does
indeed work in Wales and Scotland.<br>
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<div>s/UK/England/ possibly even s/UK/West Midlands/</div>
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The "about" page says "for all travel in Great Britain by bus, rail,
coach and ferry". As Phil mentioned, at least one of the Traveline
people is a regular on the GB mailing list and may also see this
message. So not UK (but to be fair I don't think that anyone ws
ever claiming that NI travel was covered) but certainly GB - which
is of course "in the UK".<br>
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Other than Traveline, plenty of other OSMers* have worked in the
transport / route planning area - both "startups" and more
traditional transport authorities. I know of others have looked at
consuming GTFS for bus routes in England, and found that it can be a
bit complicated as the same numbered route can exist multiple times
in the GTFS feed with only minor differences for the variations -
it's not just a simple case of "grab all that data from there and
use it" unless you're prepared to do quite a bit of processing. You
really need to be an app to do anything useful with the data (such
as <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://oeffi.schildbach.de/index.html">https://oeffi.schildbach.de/index.html</a> - which works everywhere
in GB that I've tried it and presumably uses Traveline's feeds, or
something similar) - anything else would just be "reinventing GTFS".<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
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Andy<br>
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* not naming anyone; they can out themselves if they so wish :)<br>
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