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[Thomas Cort]

Hello,

> A little more feedback.  I was talking to one of the city councilors
> yesterday evening who is on the Ottawa informatics sub-committee.
> Apparently they have decide to release data under the opendata side but his
> thoughts were that it was a list of swimming lessons and their times and not
> much else.

>From what I'm told, data sets will be rolled out in several phases. It
will start with "low hanging fruit", stuff that is low risk and easy
for the city to produce, such as parks and recreation data.

> We have a few bus stops in Ottawa already mapped but what we don't have is
> the four digit bus stop number that allows you to phone and see when the
> next bus is

We have more than a few, and some do have the four digit bus stop
number (I've been adding them).

> Previously I have suggested wiping data already in OSM where it is
> either wrong or incomplete and been cried down because people have spent
> time entering the data.

I've spent time adding bus stops and bus stop information. I don't
mind if someone goes and fixes/replaces what's currently mapped with
"official" information. However, to anyone who may do this, please
remember that there are STO bus stops in Ottawa and OC Transpo stops
in Gatineau (Hull Sector). I don't want to see STO stops disappearing
because they didn't correspond to some official OC Transpo data set.
To help this situation I've been adding the 'operator' tag and setting
it to 'octranspo' or 'sto' accordingly.

-Thomas