[Talk-us] "rogue" country-wide bus route edits

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 6:13 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us
<talk-us at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Maybe it should be reverted as an undiscussed import from
> unclear source?

I agree.  These guys borked up Tulsa so bad I had to completely start
over on transit mapping here, as nobody caught this for several weeks.
It was very evident to me that they blindly copied in data from the
official Metro Tulsa Transit Authority GTFS feed, which isn't a
problem since the city is fine with that (though the city's not even
clear if that even mattered based on Oklahoma's open data laws that
probably puts this under public domain anyway), but is not exactly up
to OSM standards in terms of reflection of ground truth.  It's bad
enough that it's plainly obvious what was blindly pulled because at
the time the GTFS feed even gets several route numbers wrong.  I've
only been using the GTFS as a suggestion on where to look to be able
to capture the ground truth, hopefully getting it to the point where
Tulsa Transit can clean up their feed.