[Talk-ca] Bus stops in Ottawa

James james2432 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 28 21:29:05 UTC 2016


I had also STO had no choice of being added manually as STO wouldnt provide
gtfs data, not sure if the license is even compatible for import(for the
gtfs data they finally provided after many people have begged for years for)
On Feb 28, 2016 4:24 PM, "Adam Martin" <s.adam.martin at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is often the trouble that long-term mappers might have with
> hit-and-run mappers, especially with regards to "living" information that
> is added to the map. Static information, like large buildings in a mature
> location or major thoroughfares, can be added by these quick mappers and
> remain relatively "safe" in terms of display on the map. The more living
> that information might be, such as bus stops in a metropolis or the
> individual businesses in a strip mall, the more prone it is to becoming
> stale-dated. Mappers in the area would be better suited to updating these
> points.
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 5:37 PM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Most of the STO bus stations were manually added by myself, not sure if
>> there were any added/changed after the fact
>> On Feb 28, 2016 4:02 PM, "john whelan" <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> So it sounds like essentially we are saying the import wasn't discussed
>>> at least as far as what the tags were to be used, I note that the STO stops
>>> on Wellington have a different set of tags.  Nor was any thought given to
>>> preserving bus shelter information nor to keeping the information up to
>>> date nor to removing any bus stops already mapped.
>>>
>>> Oh well such is life.
>>>
>>> Cheerio John
>>>
>>> On 28 February 2016 at 15:19, Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 28, 2016 3:05 PM, "john whelan" <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > It appears in august 2013 user andrewpmk imported the OC transpo bus
>>>> stops, which is fine I don't have a problem with imports but I understand
>>>> OC transpo issue a new updated GTFS file every year.  Are there plans to
>>>> reimport all the bus stops or will they simply become unreliable?  ie most
>>>> will be there and some will be missed.
>>>> > These bus stops have been imported since the POI information includes
>>>> information which is not visible at the bus stop but is available form the
>>>> GTFS file.
>>>> >
>>>> > I have three concerns, one is the GTFS file does not include bus
>>>> shelters and some existing bus stops have been mapped with shelter
>>>> information.  Are we to lose bus shelter information?  The second is
>>>> locally andrewpmk mapped bus stops in 2011 without the GTFS POI information
>>>> and they are still there.  So some locations have two bus stops mapped
>>>> where there should be only one.  The third one is how reliable is the data?
>>>> Were all the bus stops in Ottawa imported and how do we communicate to
>>>> users this bus stop was mapped in Aug 2013 if they aren't using JOSM?
>>>>
>>>> The bus stops were imported by brousseaumat. I just added the operator
>>>> OC Transpo to them.
>>>>
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