[OSM-talk] Bus routes

[Nigel Magnay]

I don't know if that site shows the same information, but something I did a
while back :

http://www.nirima.com:8080/BusInfo/busmap.html

You could examine the XML datafeed to generate the routes each bus goes
along. It'd need some manual correction I suspect as the underlying system
is actually X,Y based rather than lat,lon

I think the same nav system is used by several councils so you might be able
to extend it beyond Oxford.


On 03/10/06, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
>
> Ahoy,
>
> This looks really useful: http://oxbus.sparemint.com/
>
> But I've been pondering how to collect bus route data where I live and I
> can
> foresee a few problems.
>
> The most obvious way to collect the data would be to note down the bus
> route
> numbers at every bus stop.
>
> But this doesn't give any indication as to the actual route, i.e. the
> sequence
> in which they are visited by each bus number and the route the buses take
> in
> between stops. We'd have to travel down each bus route to get this (an
> expensive and extensive task), or take the data from bus route maps
> provided
> by the bus companies (a copyright violation?)
>
> Second, a typical bus stop may serve a bus that doddles around in a town
> such
> as Bedford (e.g. the number 120 bus', as well as a bus that goes as far
> afield as Hitchin (e.g. 'the number X1 bus'). But then in Hitchin the X1
> may
> stop at a bus stop that serves another "doddle around town" bus that is
> also
> called the number 120, and that is clearly not the same one that doddles
> around in Bedford. Charting the full bus routes would solve this, but I
> can't
> think of any simple way to put this data onto nodes for bus stops. Neither
> the bus company nor the localities served provide a foolproof guide, so
> far
> as I can tell.
>
>
> So what data should I collect, and how should I enter it into the
> database,
> whilst I map St Albans? I want to get every bus stop as I go, rather than
> requiring another round of trips once I've done the basic street data.
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
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