How can I easily map a bus route?

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 :)

twelve12,

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

Tippon,

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,

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

Tippon,

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 :)

MistaJostur,

This is how I do it. First I add all the stops in order for one direction. Then I create a bus route relation and select the roads buses go on. I add them to the relation. I then do the other way around as another relation. Then I create a route master and add the two bus route relations to the route master.

JauneBaguette,
@JauneBaguette@framapiaf.org avatar

@MistaJostur @notExactlyI20 IMO that's the best way right now. Once you've added all the stops, and in order to create the route, give Relatify a try. I've had good echoes about it

https://github.com/Zaczero/osm-relatify

Pleat1752,

This is how I do it with iD and Relatify:

  1. Create all the bus stops in iD (that includes the bus stop sign location, and (importantly!) the bus stopping location on the road)
  2. Create a relation using iD using only the first two or three bus stops.
  3. Use Relatify to finish connecting the rest of the stops.
VanitasTheUnversed,

Your bus’ route isn’t on their website?

Where I live, we have a map of the entire public transit.

Stephen304,

Even if it is on the website, it’s still nice to have it in OSM so it’s available to mapping apps that use OSM data. It’s very possible that OP intends to copy the information from the transit / city website into the OSM database.

notExactlyI20,
@notExactlyI20@lemmy.world avatar

We don’t have a website for that in my country (at least, not officialy supported). Bus routes are usually learned by memory/asked to strangers or relatives. That’s why I want to add it to osm.

Voyager,
@Voyager@psychedelia.ink avatar

That’s a very good idea. My home town is using a janky list of nodes in a Google My Maps and it’s so frustrating to use. I added the routes to OSM and they updated their website to reference my work.

Pleat1752,

Where I live, there is a random collection of buses, all privately operated, with no route maps, no website, and no head office.

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