OpenStreetMap and the Buses in Nicaragua - Presentation in Casa Vínculos
Originally posted on blog.mapanica.net.
The ultimate years, we from MapaNica - the OpenStreetMap community in Nicaragua - worked on different projects related to maps. One of our largest projects we ever did was mapping all urban buses of Managua, Nicaragua’s capital, and producing the first public transport map of all Central America.
Mapping the buses of Estelí and Nicaragua
For people from the outside public transport in Nicaragua can be confusing. On the one hand it is very widespread and you can get nearly everywhere, but on the other hand getting to know when buses leave from where can be difficult. In the sixth-largest town of Nicaragua Estelí there are five different urban routes with buses taking you to different places in the town. If you know when a bus leaves from where, taking you to somewhere else, everything is fine and transport is cheap and quick. But if you don’t have this information, taking buses can be frustrating there. Fortunately, someone mapped all bus routes of the city in OpenStreetMap allowing you to at least look at the map where bus stops are and to where buses leave.