[Talk-transit] Real-Time Bus Map

[Richard Mann]

I'd agree with Christoph that timetables (let alone real-time running
reports) don't belong in OSM. Other people should maintain timetable
databases and make the info openly available (basically because the info
isn't solely/primarily geo-organised, so the database will be structured
rather differently). OSM should only include the codes that tell us which
database to request the info from.

However, I would advocate a frequency tag on relations, giving the number of
services per hour on weekdays off-peak. That is the sort of info that often
finds it's way onto transport maps.

Richard

2009/11/4 Christoph Böhme <christoph at b3e.net>

> Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:35:37 +0000, Christoph Böhme wrote:
> >
> >> I am not aware that anyone is adding timetables at the moment and
> >> again I would not use OSM for that.
> >>
> >> Nonetheless it would be really cool to produce such a map.
> >
> > There could be a feature request for this, right? Is there a problem
> > and reason why not to include time tables in OSM?
>
> In my opinion time tables are not geographical data. That's why I would
> not stick them in a database of a project that aims to collects geo
> data.
>
> Also (and more importantly), the data model of OSM is INHO completely
> unsuitable to handle time tables. It would, of course, be possible to
> devise some clever way of encoding bus stops in tags, but that would be
> very difficult to edit and even more difficult to query. Therefore, I
> think it is a better idea to create a different database for this type
> of information and simply link it to the bus stops in OSM.
>
> > I would love to see OSM transit map with time tables so that I could
> > check when some bus/tram should arrive at my stop.
>
> Yes, that would be really cool, but it does not mean that all the data
> has to come from the same database.
>
> Christoph
>
> > Cheers.
> >
> >
>
>
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