On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 11:20 PM OSMDoudou <
19b350d2-b1b3-4edb-ad96-288ea1238...@gmx.com> wrote:

>
> We should think one step further than the tagging and figure a solution
> for maintaining and hosting GTFS files in case the PT organization doesn’t
> publish one. If we can resolve the issue of hosting the files, it will
> encourage OSM contributors to think more towards contributing to a web of
> data and less into “forcing” whatever geo-related data in OSM database.
>

Even if you can make it fit, it's not necessarily a good idea to do it.
I'm thinking of the Hoover Dustette.

And hosting these files doesn’t need to be complex. For example, certain
> JOSM plug-in’s have their configuration hosted in the wiki:
> https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Presets#JOSMwikiAvailablepresetpreferredmethod.
> So, we maybe already have the solution (with the OSM wiki, not the JOSM
> wiki).
>

Having done precisely no research into the matter whatsoever, I'm not sure
that a wiki would be the
optimal architecture for this if we ended up with many GTFS feeds that were
interrogated frequently.
The wiki architecture isn't necessarily optimized for that use-case.  But
it's probably adequate
for testing the concept.

-- 
Paul
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