Google Transit - RTA integration

[DavidEBest]

The Google Maps API provides easy access to bus routes if the locality publishes the information (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/layers#TransitLayer). This could really cut down on the amount of work we have to do (plus help future projects) if the Dayton RTA could follow the procedure here:
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/mapcontent/transit/participate.html

[dwcaraway]

@leighsandy any word from RTA yet? They could follow Dave++'s suggestion and help out a lot of commuters in the process.

Assigned this to Leigh right now.

[leighsandy]

hank trimble at the rta is working with google transit to upload the content. the information submitted to google is located at http://proc.greaterdaytonrta.org/gtfs/google_transit.zip and might be something we can integrate on the mvp or just wait until google and rta work through things.

[DavidEBest]

Woohoo! That's awesome.

[dwcaraway]

indeed awesome. There's a Google transit feed library for java and python
https://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:53 PM, David Best notifications@github.comwrote:

Woohoo! That's awesome.

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[dwcaraway]

Converted to KML
https://github.com/codefordayton/data/blob/master/rta/google_transit.kml

Log below

google.log
The file named google.log was not expected.
This may be a misspelled file name or the file may be included in a
subdirectory. Please check spellings and make sure that there are no
subdirectories within the feed
calendar.txt:5
Service period with service_id "4" doesn't have service on any days of the
week.
Timezone not checked (install pytz package for timezone validation)
stops.txt:1 column wheelchair_boarding
Unrecognized column wheelchair_boarding in file stops.txt. This might be a
misspelled column name (capitalization matters!). Or it could be extra
information (such as a proposed feed extension) that the validator doesn't
know about yet. Extra information is fine; this warning is here to catch
misspelled optional column names.
trips.txt:1 column trip_short_name
Unrecognized column trip_short_name in file trips.txt. This might be a
misspelled column name (capitalization matters!). Or it could be extra
information (such as a proposed feed extension) that the validator doesn't
know about yet. Extra information is fine; this warning is here to catch
misspelled optional column names.
Writing google_transit.kml

Process finished with exit code 0

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Dave Caraway dave@fogmine.com wrote:

indeed awesome. There's a Google transit feed library for java and python
https://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:53 PM, David Best notifications@github.comwrote:

Woohoo! That's awesome.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/4#issuecomment-34674662
.

Dave Caraway
Founder
Fogmine
dave@fogmine.com
Cell: (937) 985-0867
Fax: (866) 238-3120

Dave Caraway
Founder
Fogmine
dave@fogmine.com
Cell: (937) 985-0867
Fax: (866) 238-3120