[OSM-talk] bus times - existing tags

[Josh Doe]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> On 5/30/2011 10:07 PM, Robin Paulson wrote:
>  It would be better to encode bus schedules following an existing open
> format such as GTFS http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/ .

I would agree bus schedule data is better left to GTFS. However, it
would be beneficial to include the unique GTFS identifier as a tag on
the bus stops. This eases the mashup of OSM and GTFS data. A project
out of Florida, USA created a tool to sync up OSM and GTFS data (not
time tables though), and they've used some tags to include this GTFS
data. However the scheme is not robust enough, and hasn't undergone
much if any community discussion. Read more on the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GTFS

-Josh