I’m not very knowledgeable about this kind of data, but on Translink’s page Freedom of Information and Open Data | Legal Information | Translink it says “Data released by Translink will be under the Open Government Licence or through Translink’s Access to Information Licence.”
Also, some of Translink’s long distance bus routes are tagged on OSM with the key ‘network=Goldline’ or ‘Goldliner’
Another variant is ‘network=Ulsterbus Town Services’
And ‘network=Glider’ is an important one (big bendy busses! )
Oh well Translink are not exactly at the bleeding edge of technology, I am always slightly amazed they have any data at all
I don’t know if it’s something your PTNA project uses, but Translink do (sort of) participate in the UK’s NaPTAN thing, meaning they endeavour to allocate a unique ‘ATCO’ code to all of their bus stops.
OSM mapping of Translink bus stops is still rather patchy, but I have just completed retroffitting ‘naptan:AtcoCode=’ tags to all the bus stops on their currently-mapped PTv2 bus routes.
No, PTNA (currently) supports only GTFS as this has a world-wide coverage and is quite easy to handle (f.m.p.o.v.).
In Europe, there’s also NExTNeTEx with obviously smaller coverage.
I have done a little bit of clean-up on the ‘network=’ tags for Translink bus routes.
I have standardised the Goldliner ones as ‘network=Goldliner’ (so we can forget about the ‘Goldliner Express’ and ‘Goldline’ value)
Also ‘network=Airport Express’ I have changed to ‘network=Translink Ulsterbus’ with ‘name=Airport Express’.
Based on a missing feature / a bug in JOSM’s remote control interface, PTNA cannot inject data into route_master or route relations which include the pipe symbol ‘|’.
As a work-around, PTNA suppresses this data and gives a hint.