Posted by
Daniel Haran on
May 26, 2006; 7:30pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Travel-time-maps-from-mySociety-tp637p639.html
Hi Martin,
The data was provided for a university project in Halifax, so I know
it exists. The reason given for not releasing the data after my
freedom of information request was that the data costs money to
compile and therefore has market value- they will in the future be
selling this data.
Universities have a much easier time getting access than individual
citizens or even non-profit groups. What license terms do you have for
those shapefiles? IIRC, the schedules were online and easily parseable
too so if licenses are decent, hackers should be able to create
similar maps for your region.
The TTC seems far more enlightened than Metro Transit. The reason I
got interested in this in the first place was that we didn't even have
a route planner- something the TTC has had for a while now.
Daniel.
On 5/26/06, Marcel Fortin <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> The Toronto Transit Commission gladly provided us at the University of
> Toronto Map Library their bus and train routes in Shapefile format, but
> not the individual bus stops. Not out of any kind of restrictive policy,
> but instead they simply did not have them in any kind of GIS or other
> georeferenced format. Could this be the case in Halifax?
>
> It sounds like you maybe need to do some OpenStreetMap.org type mapping
> yourself! If you're familiar with their web pages, you can put in the
> wiki of the area of interest and type of data you want to obtain. It's
> the hope that others with the same area of interest can band together
> with you to do the mapping using GPS units. I see there are currently
> no projects underway in Nova Scotia
>
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Canada:Nova_Scotia>
> ------------------------------
> Marcel Fortin
> GIS and Map Librarian, University of Toronto
> 130 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 416 946 0522