Just to ‘announce’ (or seek sympathy for the fact ) that I’ve finished an update to the Translink ‘Glider’ routes in Greater Belfast.
For those who’ve not had the pleasure, the Glider is, depending on your point of view, a half-assed attempt at providing a bendy-bus instead of a tram system, or a wonderful new super-bus network with previously undreamt of accessibility features, luxury bus shelters and real-time timetable readouts.
It currently only has two routes, G1 and G2. I’ve retagged these in the PTv2 scheme, including adding loads of missing stops, and a lot more micromapping of associated pedestrian and public realm infrastructure.
Translink do publish Open Data on all their routes and bus stops, but to date I note it hasn’t been bulk imported to OSM - probably there is some slightly convoluted legal reason for this, which others on this forum probably know plenty about - but even if there wasn’t, the fact is that I don’t think Translink’s data quality is good enough for bulk import anyway: the positional accuracy on well over half their bus stops is out by over 100 metres, which on Google Maps and Translink’s own smartphone app means that they are often rendered about 1 street down the road from where they really are, or in the middle of a field, etc etc
So, laborious manual editing it is…
If any other editors have an interest in it, there are a good few hundred Translink bus routes unmapped at present… Northern Ireland – Bus Times is probably the handiest source I’ve found for getting a list of them all.
Those Glider routes:
G1 route master –Relation: G1 (18173183) | OpenStreetMap
G2 route master - Relation: G2 (16888053) | OpenStreetMap