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An open source multi-modal trip planner
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Support reading GTFS directly from database #1048

Closed abyrd closed 3 years ago

abyrd commented 11 years ago

GTFS is currently read from a zipped collection of text files. These are often exported from a DBMS. For large systems, the export, compression, decompression, etc. are time consuming. It would be more efficient to just pull the GTFS data straight out of the database.

carlospuk commented 11 years ago

I'm potentially interested in helping to develop this. Is the best place to discuss implementation here, or the mailing list?

abyrd commented 3 years ago

This is an interesting idea but I am not sure there would be many users. GTFS has taken off as a data exchange format for data often exported from external proprietary systems or even converted from Netex etc. It makes some sense to load it into tables in a database and build our OTP graph from that (this is what R5 does with gtfs-lib) but that's not exactly the subject of this original ticket. If anyone is actually interested in this, we would want to first discuss on the developers' mailing list. Closing.