[Talk-transit] Public Transport Timetables

[Mike N]

On 11/8/2018 12:06 PM, Leif Rasmussen wrote:
> 
> I think that creating a new GTFS server would be better than using 
> transit land or transitfeeds.com <http://transitfeeds.com>, because OSM 
> would have full control over what happened to the servers and which 
> licencing was used.
> 
> Does anyone with experience in GTFS know how an integration like that 
> could work?  Also, is what I am imagining even possible?


   I would tend to think that using the GTFS standard would be the best 
approach.  The only "duplication of effort" is that there is an 
optional? inclusion of the route geometries in the GTFS feed.

   In the one case I am familiar with - OpenTripPlanner, the local 
network build process could always download the GTFS from any source as 
part of the build process.   The only advantage I see for adding another 
feed source is to add the capability of publishing a GTFS from other 
than an official source.  This allows a public GTFS feed for a city 
which is otherwise too small to maintain an electronic schedule.