In the last year we negotiated the need for a server component for mobile transit apps, which provides the mobile component with additional data.

The current teleportr server covers basic functionality to show available downloads for your surrounding area. It offers auto completion downloads for stations or streets for a certain area.

In future it could cover other data:
- schematic plans like the bvg linienplan,
- station id tables for asking public transport apis
- maps for offline map rendering like the mapsforge project
- gtfs data packages
- browser bookmarks für transport services websites
- market bookmarks for transportation apps
- event the apps itself or extensions for apps like teleportr
- configuration data scraper plugins

The code base of the current version of it is available at http://dev.c-base.org/teleportr/server .

At the transit hack day last weekend we came up with the idea for a user facing version.
Which basically helps users to map transport related data into open street map.

We talked to christoph from the wheelmap project about their platform.
It basically enables users to find information about a certain “point of interest”.
But they can also edit the place and extend the information with wheelchair related infos.

The wheelmap project does “not” have a own database instead it takes the information from the user and writes it into the osm.
So it is basically a web based editor for openstreetmap with a specific focus.

Thats what we need for transportation information collector.

For public transport information is a draft written in german at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:%C3%96PNV_Editor

But we should also cover individual transportation information like car sharing points or hitchhiking points.

Basically we want not only collect information about a specific point also about an area.
Because we also want to collect source (websites, apps, apis) for transportation data.
Therefore we need to define shapes for which area the source is useful.

You can join the teleportr backends project and help by extending, rewriting consolidation the current software.
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