[Talk-transit] OpenStreetMap

[Barbeau, Sean]

Alexander,
In my opinion, getting written permission from the Transit Manager at the transit agency should be adequate.  They are essentially agreeing to the OSM license by giving you permission to upload, and you are their proxy for the upload.

Unfortunately GO-Sync was developed prior the Public Transport proposal (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport), so it is not fully supported.  Since GTFS only defines bus stop position (and not position of amenities or location where bus actually stops), bus stop position is what GO-Sync syncs, and all attributes are considered tags for the bus stop node.  So, the stop schema is not currently supported.  GO-Sync does support the route schema, but Khoa reminded me that the XAPI server is still having issues with relations, which are required to sync a route, so the route syncing capabilities aren't currently functional.

We did a paper and presentation at the ITS World Congress last year on the tool, and these are the best resources for details on how the tool works:
Khoa Tran, Ed Hillsman, Sean J. Barbeau, and Miguel Labrador.  "GO! Sync - A Framework to Synchronize Crowd-Sourced Mapping Contributions From Online Communities and Transit Agency Bus Stop Inventories," Proceedings of the 2011 ITS World Congress, Orlando, FL, October 18, 2011.  
Paper - http://goo.gl/9dxxS 
Presentation - http://goo.gl/n5V9z 

We'd definitely welcome any collaboration if someone wants to try and update the tool to consider items in the Public Transport approved proposal.

Sean

Sean Barbeau
Center for Urban Transportation Research University of South Florida

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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:48:08 -0500
From: Alexander Jones <happy5214 at gmail.com>
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Two things. First, I received permission from the Transit Manager at Yuba-
Sutter Transit, but would it be proper for me to wait for an exact license?

Secondly, does GO-Sync support the Public Transport approved proposal? I've 
already done most of the routes there, using that schema, and I'd prefer not 
to have to redo them.

-Alexander