[Talk-us] Boston transit info available

[Peter Miller]

On 21 Aug 2009, at 14:54, Richard Weait wrote:

> Boston is releasing their transit information for the Boston and
> surrounding areas.
> http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/08/coming_soon_iph.html


Calling all 'US' people interested in transit systems.

We are in the middle of an major import of 350,000 bus stops and ferry  
terminals etc for the UK ( London and a couple of other places have  
been imported in the past two days - Birmingham was imported two  
months ago).

There are a good number of US transit data feeds available now with  
bus stop and route data and it would be great to have these in OSM.  
When you have then you can produce bus maps and all sorts of other  
lovely stuff including bus maps and it makes it easier to link between  
OSM and official route planners and real time feeds etc from transit  
authorities.

So...

Please, let's have some folk getting stuck into the imports of this  
data. We already have code available which we used in the US which  
could probably be adapted for the import of GTFS and other data feeds.

The main wiki page for mass transit/public transport on the wiki is  
here and you can need drill in by mode.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport

Do also join the talk-transit list
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit



Regards,



Peter Miller