On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 1:01 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Which page would we prefer - the current departures or the full day? > All of them. :) Seriously, which one I'd want would depend upon circumstances. For planning a journey at some as-yet-undecided point in the future I'd want to see the full timetable covering all service days. For planning a journey on a whim today, the daily timetable. If I found myself dumped near a bus stop (car breakdown or whatever) then the next departure. And if I'm waiting for a bus that seems to be running late, the live timetable showing how buses are actually running (more than once I've missed a bus after a timetable change because the driver was running to the old timetable that was ten minutes earlier). So, ideally, all of them. But that makes it complicated to map and to use. I'd pick one of them, but what if on a particular route that one isn't available but the others are? So I'm tempted to go for a scheme which allows any or all of them to be specified - gtfs:full=* and gtfs:next=* and the mapper can add as many of them as desired. Maybe have the tag more general so it can link to non-gtfs timetables on operator websites too. Maybe we don't even have to specify gtfs as we don't really care the underlying mechanism for ordinary users. However, routers would probably want the raw GTFS tables, so we need to accommodate that. And please don't forget the possibility of a single route having two operator whose GTFS feeds list only their own vehicles on that route. The tag has to deal with that. And semi-colon separators aren't viable when they're a valid component (although deprecated) in URLs with query strings. I know that not everywhere has a usable GTFS, but for those places that do, > it would appear to be a pretty simple process to make use of it! :-) > I think it would make sense to have a tag for it even if we had gone ahead with shoehorning timetables into relations, because if it's available for a route it's a lot less work and maintenance to use GTFS. Even more sense, though, for mappers to input timetable stuff into GTFS somewhere if the operators don't provide it rather than shoehorn into a relation. -- Paul
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