[Talk-GB] [Talk-transit] Mapping train services in Great Britain

[Jon Pennycook]

Websites like Traveline (eg http://www.travelinesw.com/) combine OSM data
with public transport operator data, so I think nothing more is required.

Jon

On Tue, 1 Jun 2021, 16:30 Dave F via Talk-GB, <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
wrote:

> What's wrong with consulting a timetable?
>
> Maps show you where you can go, timetables tell you when .
>
> DaveF
>
> On 01/06/2021 01:18, Michael Tsang wrote:
>
> > I think you are missing the point that GB is not a city.
>
> > Cities are densly pack and urban transport systems reflect this. In
> London tube trains simply stop at every station.
>
> > This structure will not work when it comes to rural stations, and what
> we have works very well. It would not be efficient to stop every trains
> at stations which only have a few dozen passengers in a day.
>
> Other European countries are doing it much better. The routes are
> numbered. There are designated express services with stops only in big
> cities. The rural stations have only local stopping services which call at
> every stop en-route.
>
> We don't even have a useful route map from train companies that can work
> out which train I should take without consulting the timetable.
>
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