Open isabelle-dr opened 2 years ago
Comment by barbeau May 12, 2018
This is also related to the broader question of whether vehicle entities should be included in GTFS-rt feeds for non-revenue trips - I posed the question here but we never came to a resolution: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gtfs-realtime/9ejXOF-5lqU
Comment by nselikoff May 23, 2018
We asked our Google Transit contact whether to include vehicle entities for non-revenue trips and received this response:
"Regarding cases where the vehicle is not assigned a vehicle or route, we usually avoid such data to display on Maps. The realtime transit data is based on the underlying static data and is relying on the route/trip information available there. Therefore, any new data that may be defined in the realtime feed may throw an error/warning."
Comment by barbeau May 23, 2018
@nselikoff Thanks for the info! So is Google implying that they may display non-revenue vehicles on the map if they are in the feed? Or just that these non-revenue vehicles would cause their validator to throw errors if they aren't assigned to trips.
To my knowledge as of today Google doesn't actually show any transit vehicles on a map, so I'm assuming it's the latter.
Comment by nselikoff May 23, 2018
@barbeau pretty sure it's the latter.
However, they're also indicating that they have recently started integrating the vehicle positions feed into Google Maps. I don't have any details beyond that they're working on it + accompanying help center docs.
Issue by barbeau Apr 19, 2018 Originally opened as https://github.com/CUTR-at-USF/gtfs-realtime-validator/issues/328
Summary:
From https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gtfs-realtime/MhXzQyhv9Xs: