Hey, you might be interested in what my company does. https://www.podaris.com/ is a platform for designing transit systems -- not just creating maps, but calculating velocity profiles and travel times, fleet sizes, and (soon) making ridership projections etc.

We've developed a plug-in for QGIS, discussed here: https://blog.podaris.com/going-geospatial/

This plug-in doesn't work with the latest version of QGIS, however, and we haven't been able to allocate resources to update it. The aim is to do so and then make it open-source, as an example for how other 3rd-party software can talk to our API. If this is something you'd be interested in working on, perhaps we could open-source it sooner rather than later. Get in touch at [email protected] if you're interested.

Thanks Nathan! The pricing on your site looks like something I can afford. I'm doing the work as a side-project for the "benefit of my community", I'll get in touch via email shortly.

You can use the GTFS that many agencies put out. There are a bunch of tutorials and tools out there to help; mainly people import it into a PostgreSQL database that has the PostGIS extension installed. Here's an example: http://opendesignarch.blogspot.com/2014/03/loading-gtfs-data... and another tool to help http://cbick.github.io/gtfs_SQL_importer/html/index.html

Thanks, the data isn't in GTFS, and loading it isn't an issue as it's GeoJSON. What I'm mainly looking for is overlaying routes on a map, and being able to export that as PDFs once I'm done.

There is Vector Tiles Reader plugin [1], but it doesn't render fonts on QGIS 3 at the moment. I was able to use it with a map server to add a vector base map, and overlay my routes and stops (although still missing the offsetting bit).

[1] https://github.com/geometalab/Vector-Tiles-Reader-QGIS-Plugi...

What do you mean? Simply a map of a route (use Atlas) or a sexily layouted network map (that requires extensive manual work).

I'm thinking a simple geographical map, with lines drawn so they overlap (where there are multiple lines/routes on the same segment).

My partner is a mechanical engineer, and she says it's easier to create MTA/MBTA type of network maps on AutoCAD, but I want something with the geography still intact.