[CivicAccess-discuss] getting transit information

[Robin Millette]

On 4/3/06, Daniel Haran <chebuctonian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While waiting for my city's answer, I'm looking at how accessible
> transit data is for various Canadian cities.
>
> For various cities, I would like to compile:
> -whether an online route planner is available.
> -bus stop locations (GIS-friendly file formats would be good)
> -complete schedules in an easily parsed ("read") format.
>
> If you would like to help, let me know what city you are in, and how
> your city's transit operator reacted to your request for the above
> information.
>
> The objective is to build free / open-source route planner software,
> and convincing municipalities to open their transit data. If you are
> interested in building such a beast, let me know.

Not sure how freely the data is available, but I used to have an Palm
application called MetrO with data on over 300 of cities:

http://www.nanika.net/Metro

No GIS, but topology, schedule and interesting spots to visits are all included.

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