Data Sources - smartcommunitylab/smartplanner GitHub Wiki

The trip planner uses data from many sources: transit data from GTFS, street data from OpenStreetMap or shapefiles, and elevation data from the National Elevation Dataset or Geographical model. Each data source has its own configuration options.

GTFS

General Transit Feed Spec (GTFS) is an open and common data format for the temporal schedule data and spatial data that is required for transit trip itinerary planning. GTFS was initially developed collaboratively for participation in Google Transit, which now has 455 participating cities worldwide. GTFS is now used by hundreds of applications in addition to Google. Although the protocol itself is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License, the decision to make the actual data itself open and publicly available to the public is made on an agency-by-agency basis.A GTFS feed is composed of a series of text files collected in a ZIP file. Each file models a particular aspect of transit information: stops, routes, trips, and other schedule data. GTFS can be used to power trip planners, time table publishers, and a variety of applications, too diverse to list here, that use public transit information in some way.

OSM

OpenStreetMap data is a collection of geographically associated facts. a seamless worldwide basemap designed for routing purposes. It is open data licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).

NED

We have generated the elevation data for Trentino region. We first downloaded the raster image for Trento region from U.S. Geological Survey website (on terms for research project usage). We further added geographical meta data to this image using an open source GIS tool(Quantam -GIS) to obtain a geoTif image the tutorial of which is available here.