[Talk-transit] Proposal for a new transport tag

[Bryce McKinlay]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> Am 29.02.2012 18:18, schrieb Paul Johnson:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Bryce McKinlay<bmckinlay at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Secondly, GTFS is already a good, widely used, open format for transit
>>> schedules. Introducing a new set of tags for this stuff in OSM would
>>> be like reinventing the wheel. In many cases GTFS data is provided and
>>> kept up-to-date by the transit providers themselves.  How about tags
>>> that link public transport relations to the appropriate GTFS URL
>>> instead?
>>>
>>>
>> I agree; IIRC, GTFS data is available on the agency's website in a
>> standard
>> location.
>
>
> Could you please discuss Google Transport things on Google Groups?
>
> This is openstreetmap, not Google.

GTFS is an open data format for public transport schedules. Just
because it was invented by Google does not mean that it's only
relevant to them.

Many projects use GTFS data and have nothing to do with Google
Transit. Example: opentripplanner.org

Bryce