[OSM-talk] Bus Stops

[Lester Caine]

Ben Laenen wrote:
>> We could talk about modelling bus services, but lets not for now.
>> Lets sort out fixed infrastructure and then revisit timetable.
> 
> Modelling bus lines isn't difficult, just enter some route relations and 
> many people have done it before (time tables are really out of the 
> question right now, I guess no-one wants to enter time table data for 
> each bus stop separately yet, as it would take an hour for one stop I 
> think). What hasn't been done yet is associating bus stops with those 
> routes.

Having producing Customer Information Systems for trains and buses for far too 
long ( Windows 3.1 systems were running until recently ) I think I can vouch 
that none of this is rocket science. We had reached a point where a default 
route timetable could be created based on the times between stops and OSM 15 
years ago would have been the obvious next step for showing movements. All we 
need is a list of 'stops' be they bus,tram,train or boat, and then you have 
the route. We could manually create a full timetable from the 'schedule' in a 
couple of hours - given the right basic tools ;)

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