[Talk-transit] maintenance is very time consuming on public transport routes

[Paul Schulz]

Hi Mike,
Which tool were you using for GTFS?


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:

> On 12/3/2013 6:34 PM, Jo wrote:
>
>> Would it be useful to add all the starting times/ending times as well
>> for a given route? This can be different depending on
>> weekdays/Saturdays/Sundays/weekdays during short school
>> holidays/weekdays during long school holidays. How would we indicate
>> that difference?
>>
>> It's probably not wise to add it, it changes even more often than the
>> routes themselves.
>>
>
>  It will be very awkward and tag-heavy to add time information to the OSM
> data.  It's possible to add some data as listed above, but - in addition to
> the variations above:
>   What about route schedule timing points?  (Where the bus leaves at a
> targeted time, waiting if necessary).   Technically, each of those points
> must be updated according to the schedule above.
>
>   In my tiny area without GTFS, I created the 13 routes in OSM, then
> created GTFS data with an external tool to add time schedules.  The tool
> was not ideal, but the GTFS and OSM routes matched exactly.  There may be
> better tools available now  (For example, I haven't looked at the GTFS
> editor at https://github.com/openplans/gtfs-editor )
>
>
>
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