[Imports-us] Uploading transit data points

[Bryce Nesbitt]

You're fortunate in San Francisco to have both the NextBus data, and the
MTC stop identifiers.
That in theory gives a nice primary key for data matching, and a higher
than average data quality
given the demands of the NextBus system.

Unfortunately the data already in OSM for San Francisco does not seem to
have MTC stop identifiers,
nor does it seem particularly complete.

As such the best project would be a joint one with OSM transit geeks:
importing the base data onto
which your Lighthouse data would easily fit.  A definite starting point is:
https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/reports/gtfs-transit-data


As for maintenance, the important part is getting the data used.  If the
blind/low vision community
starts using the data, and it's mostly useful, there is a natural
constituency to keep the data maintained.  If nobody cares enough to use
the data,
it will just rot in place if moved to OSM.
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