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<div class=Section1><pre>On 22 Aug 2009, at 09:29, Peter Miller wrote:<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>>Calling all 'US' people interested in transit systems.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>>We are in the middle of an major import of 350,000 bus stops and ferry <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>terminals etc for the UK ( London and a couple of other places have <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>been imported in the past two days - Birmingham was imported two <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>months ago).<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>>There are a good number of US transit data feeds available now with <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>bus stop and route data and it would be great to have these in OSM. <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>When you have then you can produce bus maps and all sorts of other <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>lovely stuff including bus maps and it makes it easier to link between <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>OSM and official route planners and real time feeds etc from transit <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>authorities.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>>So...<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>>Please, let's have some folk getting stuck into the imports of this <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>data. We already have code available which we used in the US which <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>could probably be adapted for the import of GTFS and other data feeds.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>>The main wiki page for mass transit/public transport on the wiki is <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>>here and you can need drill in by mode.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>><a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi Peter,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>My guess is that you have my expression of interest and
contact information from a post earlier this month on talk-transit, but in case
not, please count me in. One of my colleagues and I are finalizing a scope of
work that includes developing tools to enable US transit agencies to upload their
GTFS data into OSM whenever they update their data in Google. Part of a longer term
effort to link bike/bus/walk route planning here. The project is not formally
agreed to yet, but we think it is pretty likely to start this fall. So,
definitely, I’m interested and look forward to working with the group. Certainly
we’d be interested in starting with what you’ve done in the US.<o:p></o:p></p>
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