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MBTA Ninja!
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Use GTFS as source of data for transit data. #133

Open FlippytheFrogman opened 9 years ago

FlippytheFrogman commented 9 years ago

The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) defines a common format for public transportation schedules and associated geographic information. GTFS "feeds" allow public transit agencies to publish their transit data and developers to write applications that consume that data in an interoperable way.

https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/

patrickgreenwell commented 8 years ago

This looks like a great way to import t data and then use that to build out the data. That's got lots of nifty methods we can use to pull maybe use geo-location for reports and such.

We'll need an upgrade script for the previous data in the mongodb though. Might add the station_id into the JSON we've got as a way for future upgrades.