Wayfare builds an aggregate dataset of public transport routes across Great Britain and Ireland. It produces a PMTiles archive, a tiled hierarchical map file, behind an interactive map where hovering a road lists the services on it.
Wales is 41 MB zipped and exercises every stage, which makes it a better first run than the national bundle. WAYFARE_REGION and WAYFARE_OSM_URL must describe the same area.
$ cat > .env <<'EOF'
WAYFARE_REGION=wales
WAYFARE_OSM_URL=https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/united-kingdom/wales-latest.osm.pbf
EOF
$ direnv allow # or: nix develop
$ docker compose up -d valhalla # builds its graph before it answers anything
$ wayfare acquire --region wales # resolves its own extract URL from --region
$ wayfare patterns
$ wayfare match # the long one
$ wayfare aggregate
$ wayfare publish
$ wayfare status
$ wayfare serve # viewer on http://localhost:8099$ docker compose up -d valhalla # first start builds the graph
$ docker compose run --rm pipeline # every stage, acquire through publish
$ docker compose up -d web # viewer and renderer on :8099pipeline runs wayfare all, which is safe to interrupt and re-run, since every stage skips work already done. It runs the same stages in the same order as deploy/refresh.sh, which is for incremental updates on a schedule.
| Source | Covers | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| DfT Bus Open Data Service (BODS) GTFS | Great Britain | Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0 |
| NaPTAN stop register | Great Britain | OGL v3.0 |
| National Transport Authority (NTA) GTFS, published as Transport for Ireland | Republic of Ireland | Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 |
| Translink TransXChange timetables and MapInfo route geometry, via OpenDataNI | Northern Ireland | OGL v3.0 |
| Geofabrik OpenStreetMap extracts | all three | Open Database License (ODbL) |
docs/pipeline.md— the nine stages, storage, clustering, tiles.docs/data.md— the feeds, their traps, mode filtering, coverage gaps, attribution.docs/deploy.md— the scheduled refresh, and the publish gate that guards it.