[Talk-ca] Fwd: [Talk-us] Boston transit info available

[Sam Vekemans]

If you have a chance, (im not at a computer right now). Perhaps we can
put a new section on the BC province wiki page under 'goals' .

I put a star on this email, so its on my todo list :)

On 8/26/09, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know about Translink, but I know BC Transit, which controls
> the rest of the province is actively interested in getting their data
> into the Google Transit Data Spec. No timeframe though, because that
> person is busy with a lot of shiny new projects.
>
> Corey
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Sam
> Vekemans<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just being a messenger here.  I forget who it was in Halifax who said
>> that OSM is used for the local transit map?
>> Anyway, im not on that talk-transit list, but it might be of interest to
>> you.
>> Also, if anyone has an 'in' with Translink (vancouver transit) it
>> would be great to get access to that data stream. :-) (as i think the
>> city is looking at freeing up their data)
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sam
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Hillsman, Edward" <hillsman at cutr.usf.edu>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:55:23 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Boston transit info available
>> To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
>>
>> On 22 Aug 2009, at 09:29, Peter Miller wrote:
>>
>>>Calling all 'US' people interested in transit systems.
>>>
>>>We are in the middle of an major import of 350,000 bus stops and ferry
>>
>>>terminals etc for the UK ( London and a couple of other places have
>>>been imported in the past two days - Birmingham was imported two
>>>months ago).
>>>
>>>There are a good number of US transit data feeds available now with
>>>bus stop and route data and it would be great to have these in OSM.
>>>When you have then you can produce bus maps and all sorts of other
>>>lovely stuff including bus maps and it makes it easier to link between
>>
>>>OSM and official route planners and real time feeds etc from transit
>>>authorities.
>>>
>>>So...
>>>
>>>Please, let's have some folk getting stuck into the imports of this
>>>data. We already have code available which we used in the US which
>>>could probably be adapted for the import of GTFS and other data feeds.
>>>
>>>The main wiki page for mass transit/public transport on the wiki is
>>>here and you can need drill in by mode.
>>>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Edward L. Hillsman, Ph.D.
>>
>> Senior Research Associate
>>
>> Center for Urban Transportation Research
>>
>> University of South Florida
>>
>> 4202 Fowler Ave., CUT100
>>
>> Tampa, FL  33620-5375
>>
>> 813-974-2977 (tel)
>>
>> 813-974-5168 (fax)
>>
>> hillsman at cutr.usf.edu <mailto:polzin at cutr.usf.edu>
>>
>> http://www.cutr.usf.edu <blocked::http://www.cutr.usf.edu/>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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