[Talk-transit] Fwd: Re: OpenStreetMap

[Peter J Stoner]

You may be interested to know that in the UK the government working 
with Traveline are proposing to make all bus timetables open data in 
April 2012.  http://travelinedata.org.uk/opendata.htm


In message <2416208.YCXyV2o5Da at happy5214.no-ip.org>
          Alexander Jones <happy5214 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I got this email in response to one that I had sent. It has to do with GTFS
> data that we could possibly use in OSM. As you can see, the company
> responsible for creating the data is supportive of the idea, but noted
> that it
> is up to the individual transit providers to license the data. Tell me what
> you think.

> And I know that OSM isn't a "Wikipedia for mapping", but the differences
> probably aren't significant to people not involved directly with both.

> -Alexander


> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------

> Subject: Re: OpenStreetMap
> Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 10:29:45
> From: Aaron Antrim <aaron at trilliumtransit.com>
> To: Alexander Jones <happy5214 at gmail.com>
> CC: Keith Martin <keith_martin at sbcglobal.net>


> Hi Alexander,
> Thank you for your email.  Trillium does not have rights to license Yuba-
> Sutter Transit GTFS data.  Those rights are for the Yuba-Sutter Transit to
> assign.  The agency has chosen to make their data public, however without a
> license: http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/agency/yuba-sutter-transit/
> I'd encourage the data to be integrated with OSM.
> Trillium works for many other public transit agencies, most of which have
> public GTFS data.  I'd be happy to encourage those agencies to integrated
> their data in OSM.  Let me know how I can help make this happen.
> Competition,
> options, and open data are good for everyone.
> Cheers,
> Aaron


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Peter J Stoner
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Traveline

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