[Talk-transit] GTFS compatibility (was Re: Proposed changes to oxomoa schema [part 2: stops])

[Joe Hughes]

I agree that it would be helpful to end up with something that allows
straightforward conversions to and from the GTFS format.  GTFS is a
CC-licensed specification [1] which is evolved by an open community
process [2].  Also, the great majority of U.S. and Canadian transport
data is already available to developers in GTFS format [3], which has
led to a community of developers  creating apps which can consume and
produce it [4].

Incidentally, as someone who's been deeply involved in the development
of the format, I'm happy to answer any questions, and generally help
to get this substantial mass of transport data into OSM.

Cheers,
Joe

Links:
[1] http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html
[2] http://groups.google.com/group/gtfs-changes/
[3] http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/
[4] http://groups.google.com/group/transit-developers

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:
> Shouldn't we keep the schema to something that is easily compatible with the
> Google Transit GTFS format instead of developing something different all
> together? I believe the GTFS was developed after extensive research on how
> transit companies actually manage their data and how that data can be used
> for routing. On the plus side the entire specification documentation and
> tools have been released under cc-by-sa. in addition to which transit
> agencies are making their feed public too, making it easy to update routes.
>
> I haven't had the time to go through the proposed osm transit schema in
> detail, but i would hope that in the end, it would allow easy conversion to
> and from GTFS. This hasnt got anything to do with me supporting google
> transit, but just that i feel that the format is quite comprehensive and
> indepth, And in future when an OSM transit app comes out, agencies would be
> able to easily publish their data in the OSM schema as well without much
> hassle.
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