[Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

[Andrew MacKinnon]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The TTC data is pretty much useless to us because it is in a weird
>> non-documented format. Would the TTC be willing to allow us to copy
>> directly from its website, which includes route data in a much more
>> user-friendly format?
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>
> We can take notes for the Vancouver Transit Data, perhaps the folks who
> created the ttc file maybe to able to  collaborate a little.
> I haven't yet dealt with the TransLink data yet, so i have no idea what the
> source file is like. If it's simple nodes then attributes of the route is
> stored there, then it's.
> ... cool others have been working on it.  Thanks Richard
>
> Has anyone sent of a message to the City of Toronto?

OK, I found a file indicating the meanings of the TTC data format at
the datato group, but it's broken. The latitude and longitude of each
bus stop are supposed to be there, but they are missing. This means
the TTC data is useless until this is fixed.