[Talk-ca] TTC in Toronto

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Jason Reid <osm at bowvalleytechnologies.com>

| The bigger question is whether the routes are even mapped? From what I can
| decipher from that page (which likely was borrowed from the wiki page for a
| german city) the status is unknown for the transit related map data. I know
| that for Calgary we've barely entered any routes yet, mostly just the LRT
| line, and I suspect that the TTC stuff is at a similar state. (Anyone from
| that area please correct me if I am wrong).

This message is interesting:
  http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-April/025604.html

As I said, I'm a newbie.  I wouldn't actually know how to find if
routes are mapped.

Naively, I would expect that the TTC should be willing to contribute
mapping data to OSM: it could only be to their benefit.

At last night's NewTLUG about OSM, two audience members were from a
company that is building on OSM (I think) to provide transit
information.  I think that they are aiming to make available real-time
bus arrival information.  Details in my mind are fuzzy.  Maybe they or
Richard are reading this and can say more.