Suggestion 934

Public access to mainline live departure and arrival board data is already available:

http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldbws/

But I agree all the other datasets mentioned would be useful. I can see no reason why a FOI request for bus routes and stop locations should not be granted, were it to be made.

...in fact, a FOI request has already been made for bus stop location and associated information. It may be a year or so out of date, but I suspect this data is relatively static, and since the request succeeded once, I'm sure an updated copy could be obtained...

http://www.codefromasmallisland.com/2009/03/london-bus-stop-and-route-data-from-tfl_09.html

Unsure of the associated T&C's, but a quick look at the TfL bus info website shows that all stop and route information can be retrieved as JSON using the following url syntax:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/tfl-bus-map/dotnet/FullRoute.aspx?route=x&run=y

Where x is the route number and y si the run number of the day

So for exampl:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/tfl-bus-map/dotnet/FullRoute.aspx?route=73&run=1

Gives run 1 for route 73 in JSON notation - including all stops and polyline info for the route

...and

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/tfl-bus-map/dotnet/AllRoutes.aspx

returns JSON notation for all routes in London

Timetable info for any route can be obtained in html format from the following:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/syndication/feeds/html/timetables/buses/x_y.htm

Where x is the bus number and y is the sopi id. The stop id can be obtained from:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/tfl-bus-map/dotnet/FullRoute.aspx?route=x&run=y

as mentioned above

So for example:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/syndication/feeds/html/timetables/buses/73_BP1562.htm

What we're still missing is the lookup from all of the "stop FE at victoria" (or similar) to GPS. The Code from a Small Island FoI request gets us the general co-ordinates for a particular stop, but not the capability to do this lookup.

Try:

http://bbarker.co.uk/busStops

based on an FOI request - may now be slightly out of date