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.
Transport 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
Other mapping projects
- Sidewalks in Paris, 2023
- Sidewalks in Caen, Normandy, 2024-2025
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)
Studies & reports
- How to convert OSM attributes to NeTEx (profil FR, accessibilité) (fr) (2023)
- Transport data models comparative review between OSM, GTFS, NeTEx & Wikidata (2020)
- Benchmark of existing open source solutions for conflating structured, geographical and transit data (2020)
- Comparative analysis and monitoring over time of Île-de-France's open data transport data (fr) (2018-2019)
Tools
Jungle Bus helps developing existing open source tools and also produces new tools dedicated to transport data in OSM.
- The favorite tools of the team(fr)
- A more exhaustive list of awesome tools
- On Github: Jungle-Bus GitHub
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