Adding bus routes in Gloucester/Ipswich Mass.

General talk
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The OSM map is missing the bus routes in Gloucester/Ipswich Mass.

There is a KML in the public domain here https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/MassDOT::rta-bus-routes/explore with the Gloucester MA bus routes.

I’m not sure what the correct way to add them in is (newbie Q). I feel like someone has a better way to add them in. It just needs to extract the northeast Mass. area to put those bus routes into the map.

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Adding bus routes is described on page:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Buses#Bus_routes

And the routes should probably added as transport version 2:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?oldid=625726

3

Well, first step would be to add the bus stops and then the routes. The data is from 2020 and split into stops and routes, which is not that useful. I wonder if you can get the original GTFS and use it inn OSM.

Anyway, I fear it is a task for little more experienced users and I recommend to use JOSM and its pt_assistant plugin.
For QA and a nice display of GTFS there is the wonderful tool called PTNA.