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How can I easily map a bus route? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by notExactlyI20@lemmy.world to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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I'm on a crusade to add all of the bus routes in my city (hopefully all of my country in a future), but there is no easily way as to "draw line here/add a node here as bus stop, tag as bus route X, rinse and repeat" as far as I know right?.

Would love some recommendations from other pros at OSM :)

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[–] twelve12@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the routes are published with GTFS (which they probably are), I bet there's a tool to get it done!

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you find out if the routes are published with GTFS? Sorry if it's a simple question, I'm new to this :)

[–] twelve12@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check your local transit authority's website and find the GTFS endpoint urls

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for replying :)

I've tried looking, but it's over my head for now. As far as I can tell though, it's not available through my local bus operator. This is from the download section of their site:

'Downloads are currently available as industry standard TransXChange files for schedules and NetEx files for fares.'

So they seem to be static downloads rather than a live link. I'm in South Wales, in the UK, and while the local councils give out the contracts, they don't seem to deal with much past that.

It doesn't help that technology wise, we may as well still be in the 90s here :(

Never mind, I'll keep digging, and try to get the maps around me updated :)