mmblog

by multimob

This blog is a modest contribution to a journey through public transport mapping in OpenStreetMap.

Blog posts

• Differences between Belgian PT operators about data publishing (Sep 2024)
• Introducing GPX shapefiles to draw bus routes (Aug 2024)
• A permanent quest for missing stops on the map (Jul 2024)
• Bus relations can break at any time (Jul 2024)
• New challenges with De Lijn GTFS data for July 2024 (Jun 2024)
• Comparing stop locations against GTFS (May 2024)
• Hunting for duplicate primary keys (Apr 2024)
• Validating on two versions of the same route (Apr 2024)
• The problem of having unstable route id in GTFS (Apr 2024)
• About persistent route id codes in GTFS (Mar 2024)
• Locating bus stops as accurately as possible (Feb 2024)
• Abyssal complexity (Jan 2024)
• Towards a general PT monitoring system (Dec 2023)
• Identifying outliers reliably (Nov 2023)
• Dealing with GTFS fallacies (Oct 2023)
• An elegant way to display platform numbers (Aug 2023)
• Challenges in adding fare information to OSM? (Jul 2023)
• About city name prefixes in public transport stops (May 2023)
• How bus stops reflect a territory? (Apr 2023)
• Annoying problem on the network tag of bus routes and stops (Mar 2023)
• Ghost trips on bus lines (Feb 2023)
• Covering an entire country equally? (Jan 2023)
• Moving bus stop nodes away from shelters (Dec 2022)
• Too much work to repair everything at once (Nov 2022)
• Getting OSM data closer to reality (Jul 2022)
• Quality checks for everything (May 2022)
• What's in a name? (Apr 2022)
• About linking OSM bus stops with Wikidata for etymologies (Feb 2022)
• Adding bus stops to OSM (Jan 2022)
• First changeset in OSM (Dec 2021)
• How much time would it take to fix public transport in Belgium in OSM? (Dec 2021)