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GTFS-Fares v2: Improvement of filling with stops of a certain area #374

Open kostjerry opened 1 year ago

kostjerry commented 1 year ago

It would be convenient to have possibility to bundle-fill the area.

Motivation: in Athens there are airport area and urban area. The airport area can be simply modeled by adding stops to the stop_areas.txt. The urban area contains all other stops of the city and there's a lot of such. Therefore if a provider adds some stops to the stops.txt in the urban zone he could miss to add them to the stop_areas.txt and it will fall to an issue.

I’m proposing to add new file area_networks.txt as many-to-many relation between network_id and area_id. This means that all stops of the routes marked by network_id will belong to the area_id.

Additionally I’m proposing to extend stop_areas.txt by type (with possible values include or exclude) which will defaults to include.

derhuerst commented 1 year ago

Wouldn't it be possible to catch this case with a relatively straightforward validation script or rule in the GTFS Validator?

kostjerry commented 1 year ago

You're totally right from the perspective of the GTFS consumer. Nevertheless this approach could decrease data maintenance efforts for data producers.

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