JargonAndAcronyms

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Jargon and Acronyms

What does xyz mean?

Transit Authorities

KCM

King County Metro

http://metro.kingcounty.gov/

Public transit authority of King County, WA. Covers Seattle.

RTD

Regional Transportation District

http://www.rtd-denver.com/

Bus and light rail authority for Denver, Boulder, and surrounding Colorado cities.

UTA

Utah Transit Authority

http://www.rideuta.com/

Bus and rail authority for Salt Lake City, UT and the surrounding area.

Transit and Geographic Jargon

GTFS

Google Transit Feed Specification

renamed General Transit Feed Specification ?

http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specification.html

Common format for transit schedules and related data.

NED

National Elevation Dataset

http://ned.usgs.gov/

Used to grab the elevation of GPS coordinates for the United States.

Necessary because consumer GPS are not good at collecting accurate elevation readings.

OSM

Open Street Map

http://www.openstreetmap.org/

Project to create free, editable maps of the world

Data is available under Creative Commons (CC-BY-SA)

OTP

Open Trip Planner (aka, this project)

Technical Jargon