[Talk-ca] http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/agency/oc-transpo/

[Robert Damphousse]

GTFS is a format that Google started for storing information about public
transit systems:

http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html

If you have specific questions about the format that are not addressed by
the documentation, you can try the transit developers group:

http://groups.google.com/group/transit-developers/

Keep in mind that the format is far from being a "standard", and nearly
every transit agency has something in their GTFS dataset which is not part
of the current specification.  There are also a few tools for importing GTFS
data into a SQL database, this may help you take a better look at what is in
the data.  Here is one such tool:

http://cbick.github.com/gtfs_SQL_importer/html/index.html

Cheers,
Robert

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Thomas Cort <linuxgeek at gmail.com> wrote:

> The coordinates don't appear to be very accurate. I tried plotting a
> few points on a map. They are pretty close sometimes, but not dead on
> (maybe I just picked the few inaccurate ones to test). The bus stop
> number (asset_ref in OSM / stop_code in GTFS) is not present in
> stops.txt. There are already a number of OC Transpo stops in OSM, so
> any import would have to check for nearby duplicates. Lastly and most
> importantly, there is no license information* and it isn't marked on
> the GTFS exchange site as official.
>
> * Note, I'm one of the organizers of Open Data Ottawa
> (opendataottawa.ca). The city is likely going to be opening up some
> data sets soon. The motion has passed the IT sub comittee and just has
> a couple of more steps to go. Hopefully that will clear up the license
> uncertainty and give the public an official OC Transpo data set. I'll
> keep you posted.
>
> -Tom
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:30 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> There seems to be a collection of bus stop data here for different
> cities
> >> including Ottawa.  Any idea who is putting it up or if there are any
> scripts
> >> for import etc?
> >
> > How is that data licensed?
> >
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