[Talk-transit] OpenStreetMap

[Alexander Jones]

Barbeau, Sean wrote:

> 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.

Got it.

> 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.

I already did the routes, but what I need are the stops...

> 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.

I did some Java programming a while back. I've been doing more in Python 
recently, but maybe I could take a look at the code and see what I could do.

-Alexander