How to download London's transit stops data?

General talk
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Hello,

I want to get a shapefile of all the public transportation’s stops and stations in London from OSM for academic research purposes.
How can I get it?

Thanks,
Or.

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I cannot give you a solution to a point, but maybe head over to https://help.openstreetmap.org and do a **search ** there for “export POI”, “list of POIs” or similar keywords.

Answers there will lead you to overpass-api or overpass-turbo … via those webservices you can get all nodes, ways and relations belonging to public transport in a certain area.

First you should get familiar with http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Elements … and how public transport is tagged in the OSM database in general. See the OSM wiki for details.

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Do you want “public transport data for London” or “what public transport data for London there is in OSM”? If it’s the former, you might find https://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/our-open-data useful. If the latter, then as stephan75 says there are various worked examples around, including on the help site.