[Talk-us] Routing on Ferries

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Natfoot <natfoot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The inherent problem with ferry routes is that they have a schedule.
>> Routers can't then tell their users how long it is going to take without
>> that data.
>>
>> As far as I know we don't have schedule capability within OSM and it is
>> something that the routers have not pulled not even the big G. The big G is
>> listing the route as being "Mon-Sun: 7 AM–11:30 PM · every 60 min"  This
>> is a safe comment even though the schedules change seasonally
>>
>
> I agree. However, it would be nice to have it show the route. Somehow we
> can route via bus using GTFS. I wonder if ferry routes have a similar spec?
>

There's nothing that says ferries can't use GTFS.
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