I'm contemplating recreating all 41 lines on the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority. I'm not sure that I should because it might have to be maintained? If I do, it's going to be a an off-year project to occur between editions only. For those of you coming directly in from a search engine, if I were to recreate all 41 lines into GPS tracks, then others could download them (most notably on a smartphone) and use it to track their progress on a transit vehicle, or walk through Lucas County somewhere, wonder what the nearest bus line is, then tap and find out. They can do all this with 3rd party apps.
On the Ohio Transit Hiker's Resource (OTHR), it's beneficial for somebody who's from out of town. Right now, TARTA isn't on Google Transit, nor does it have it's own electronic, automated routing system. In fact, its the only metro along the Buckeye and North Country Trail's route in Ohio that doesn't.
It's my assumption that OTHR caters to an audience that doesn't ordinarily use transit. And they might find TARTA's system map to be intimidating. There may come a time when they need to replace a piece of gear and it entails mounting a search that's system wide on TARTA. But with the new campsites at Farnsworth Metropark, compared to previous editions, they now have less need to use transit for lodging.
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