[Talk-transit] What's going on with Öpnvkarte?

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi all,
a backgrounder..


The raw data is available from gtfs (i think) which holds the
'official' data on a central holding place.


The route relations that are currently in osm are a mix of both,
hand-drawn (manually attached to osm ways and nodes) and imported with
manual tweeking.


The licence on the manual tweeking is of ccBYsa, where the raw data is
public domain or ccBY.  So edits in osm cant go back to the official
source.


Ideally, the gtfs data should be listed as a separate layer and hosted
on geocommons.com as eact dataset source can be it's own layer.


Ideally, potlatch2 can show this data as a background .shp file so it
can be used to enhance osm.
And to give back to each transit authority, it needs to be done on an
individual basis. (or on a separate combined map with a different
licence)





FYI,
cheers,
sam

On 11/16/10, Michael von Glasow <michael at vonglasow.com> wrote:
> On 11/12/2010 08:45 PM, Michael von Glasow wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> For those of you who don't already know me from other lists I
>> participate in, my name is Michael and, among others, I map public
>> transportation in Milan.
>>
>> Up to now I have relied on Öpnvkarte (aka openbusmap.org) for
>> representing bus, tram and other routes. However, as some of you may
>> have noticed, the site appears somewhat deserted - the last update is
>> reportedly from early September (without specifying a date; the site
>> used to be updated multiple times a week with a precise date on the
>> main page) and tiles in the higher zoom levels are broken.
>>
>> Does anybody know what's going on?  I sincerely hope the project has
>> not been abandoned and the outage is only temporary... up to now, this
>> has been the definitive site for public transportation mapping, and
>> I'd be really sad to see it go...
>>
>> Michael
> In the meantime, I have found a posting by Melchior Moos, the maintainer
> of Öpnvkarte, to talk-de (in German). Basically, the load has gotten too
> much for his server to handle, and at the moment he does not have the
> time to fix it. So we'll have to wait and see...
>
>
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