[Talk-transit] Uploading public transport data on OSM

Yash Ganthe yashgt at gmail.com
Tue Jan 16 12:37:04 UTC 2018


What caught my attention is a project called Go Sync
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GO-Sync
The description indicates that it is for syncing GTFS with OSM. But I am
not sure what type of account is needed for that.

Yes, the permissions from the agency will be obtained.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, the very first question that comes to mind is: is it under a suitable
> license, or can you get explicit permission from the operator to contribute
> it to OpenStreetMap?
>
> The next issue is that there is no direct way to add GTFS to OSM.
> stops.txt can be converted to nodes for the stops, but the other files need
> to be processed to generate route relations containing lists of these stops.
>
> Sometimes there are shape files in GTFS, if that permission is granted
> these can be used as guides to know where the buses pass, but converting
> them to something useful in OSM (route and route_master) relations is very
> involved.
>
> I'm proposing a project for GSoC (Google Summer of Code) to create a web
> interface to help with such conversion and followup on its progress, so if
> you know students who know Python, Django and PostGIS, let them contact me.
>
> Polyglot
>
> 2018-01-16 12:44 GMT+01:00 Yash Ganthe <yashgt at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If I have a GTFS data of my agency, can I upload it to OSM? Do I need to
>> convert it to any other format before uploading? Do I need to create a
>> special account in OSM to be able to upload the data? Will it start showing
>> the public transport options on the map similar to Google Maps?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yash
>>
>>
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