Jungle Bus
Jungle Bus is a company that helps transport stakeholders to co-create mobility data with the OpenStreetMap community.
The Jungle Bus solutions are dedicated for both public and private mobility organizations who wish to benefit from OpenStreetMap:
- Mobility data creation, including paratransit
- Creation of tools to collect, export and use these data
- Collaboration projects with the OpenStreetMap community
- Advice and support for public and private partners
- Audit and data analysis
More details can be found on the official Jungle Bus website.
You are welcome to contact the team on: contact at junglebus.io.
Data creation
Below is the list of current and past mapping projects:
- Accra Mobility (Accra, Ghana, 2017)
- AbidjanTransport (Greater Abidjan region, Ivory coast, 2019-2020)
- KochiTransport (Kochi, Inde, TBD)
Jungle Bus also supports several projects from the local communities:
- Bamako in Mali
- Greater Paris in France
Collaborative projects
- Multilingual infographics about OSM and GTFS to map a public transport network
- The OSM project of the month (fr) about charging stations (March 2020)
- A photo contest on Wikimedia Commons about paratransit in Africa (March 2020)
Tools
Jungle Bus helps developing existing open source tools and also produces new tools dedicated to transport data in OSM.
Jungle Bus Community
Before it was a company, Jungle Bus was a non-profit (French association). Its team consisted of OpenStreetMap and public transport enthusiasts.
The objective: enable small local teams to improve the quality of public transport data in their city.
The team conducted two sorts of actions:
- develop and improve tools related to public transport in OpenStreetMap
- help local communities to map their local bus networks
You can still find these enthusiasts on the transport mailing list(fr).
See also:
- The Jungle Bus mobile app is the first open source tool produced by the team. Available on Android devices in multiple languages, it provides a simple and effective way for anyone to position and describe bus stops on the ground.
- How to map my local bus network (fr) - a tutorial