Use "Supplemented GTFS" for the NYC subway

jamespfennell / transiter

Web service for transit data

https://demo.transiter.dev

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Use "Supplemented GTFS" for the NYC subway #130

Open cedarbaum opened 9 months ago

cedarbaum commented 9 months ago

The MTA publishes a supplemented GTFS file hourly with service changes (see: https://new.mta.info/developers). As more static data is exposed in the future, using this file should provide much better data quality.

Hopefully this is a simple URL change (http://web.mta.info/developers/files/google_transit_supplemented.zip) in us-ny-subway config, but will need additional validation.

jamespfennell commented 8 months ago

Nice! Right now Transiter doesn't really support querying the static data, so losing the ability to see what's happening in a month's time is not an issue. I do wonder is there a ways to merge the datasets to the get the union of them (so the supplemented for the next week, falling back to the main one). This is sort of related to #127...