[Imports] Bus stop import in Raleigh area of North Carolina, USA

[Nate Wessel]

The map matching is an interesting idea: I think OSRM can return a list 
of OSM node_id's from a matched route and it should be able to handle 
one-ways fairly well, giving you the 2+ distinct directions for PTV2 
tagging. You would just have to work backwards from the node_id's up to 
the way_id's to build a relation of ways. The big obstacle I see to this 
is that often highway ways need to be split strategically where routes 
turn, end etc.

Still, just building relations from whole ways could be a good starting 
point for a big network import. Adding ordered stops to the route 
relations would be easy conceptually, but any splitting of the ways 
would need to be done manually.

Cheers,

Nate Wessel
Jack of all trades, Master of Geography, PhD candidate in Urban Planning
NateWessel.com <http://natewessel.com>

On 5/6/19 11:19 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> Since bus routes are relations, you could use the lines as an overlay 
> and create the relations based upon that, but you’d have to be sure 
> the lines are accurate. What I go by to create routes is the 
> authoritative bus map of the agency. Example: official map 
> http://www.rideuta.com/-/media/Files/Rider-Tools/Route-Schedules/2018/December/006schedule_Dec2018.ashx and 
> OSM relation 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8338140#map=14/40.7719/-111.8711
>
> (While I was looking this up I noticed that someone had gone in and 
> renamed all the routes to no longer match the official bus route names..)
>
> Martijn
>
>> On May 5, 2019, at 9:37 PM, Leif Rasmussen <354lbr at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:354lbr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> > I’m curious about your thoughts on potentially adding bus routes 
>> automatically?
>> We are not sure, but the gtfs files we're using have the shapes of 
>> the routes as lines.  It is likely we'll end up manually adding 
>> routes, since automation would create some issues sometimes.
>> Mapbox map matching might be helpful here, but we haven't looked into 
>> it yet.  We are focusing on the bus stops now.
>> Thanks,
>> Leif
>>
>> On Sun, May 5, 2019, 9:37 AM Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org 
>> <mailto:m at rtijn.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Leif,
>>
>>     I’m curious about your thoughts on potentially adding bus routes
>>     automatically? I’ve been chipping away at adding bus routes in my
>>     area manually and it takes quite a bit of time and attention to
>>     detail. I am having trouble envisioning how that could be automated.
>>
>>     (In case anyone wants to help or check progress:
>>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Utah/Transit#Utah_Transit_Authority_.28UTA.29)
>>
>>     Martijn
>>
>>>     On May 3, 2019, at 5:40 PM, Leif Rasmussen <354lbr at gmail.com
>>>     <mailto:354lbr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi everyone!
>>>     After completing the buildings import in Raleigh, NC, we are
>>>     moving on to the bus stops.  We have set up a Tasking Manager
>>>     project, so importing should be ready to start once all comments
>>>     have been addressed.
>>>     * Size of import: Fewer than 2796 bus stops (many have already
>>>     been added to OSM, and will be updated rather than deleted and
>>>     replaced).
>>>     * Tasking Manager project:
>>>     https://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/120
>>>     * Wiki page:
>>>     https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_NC_Transit_Import
>>>     * Start time: Sometime in May, 2019
>>>
>>>     Here is the file of bus stops we plan on importing:
>>>     https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SbcWF8U8vzJGRg7cWWCBfgTy9X4n-hCB
>>>     -- We will manually adjust and improve the locations of bus
>>>     stops before importing, since that seemed to be the largest
>>>     issue (some stops were up to 10 meters away from the actual
>>>     location of the stop).
>>>
>>>     We will start sometime later this month if no issues are
>>>     raised.  After the import is finished, we will likely attempt
>>>     adding bus routes, either automatically or manually. We will
>>>     send another email to this list before importing any routes,
>>>     however, since that is a separate import.
>>>
>>>     Thanks,
>>>     Leif Rasmussen
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