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tool to convert transxchange data into a GTFS feed
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NAPTAN link changed #49

Closed tafflin closed 2 years ago

tafflin commented 2 years ago

Hi @linusnorton ,

Looks like NAPTAN for some reason decided to change their website since 14.01.2022 and now they provide the stops.csv by another link: https://beta-naptan.dft.gov.uk/Download/File/Stops.csv

The download page is now: https://beta-naptan.dft.gov.uk/Download/National The file is provided in csv and I cannot also find other additional files like stop areas, rail reference, etc that were available in NAPTAN zip.

dannywithington commented 2 years ago

On a related note, is it possible to prevent the NAPTAN from from downloading at first use?

transxchange2gtfs is a superb piece of software, but as someone who mainly uses it offline, it doesn't function without first downloading the NAPTAN file.

Keep up the good work. Danny.

tafflin commented 2 years ago

@dannywithington You can actually use it without downloading the latest NAPTAN. The converter looks for the latest converted naptan: /tmp/Stops.csv We now have to temporarily use the older ver of naptan or process it and put in /tmp folder.

linusnorton commented 2 years ago

@dannywithington if you use it offline do you want the option to not use the stops data?

linusnorton commented 2 years ago

I've published version 1.10.0 which should contain the correct location for stop data. It also adds the ability to skip downloading stop data with the flag skip-stops

tafflin commented 2 years ago

@linusnorton what does this flag do? E.g. if I don't have Stops.csv in /tmp it throws an exception. If I have such file then it uses it in conversion. Previously if you had the naptan file and did not use --update-stops flag the utility similarly used the old one in /tmp folder.

tafflin commented 2 years ago

@linusnorton @dannywithington There is also a problem with the latest NAPTAN as it lacks lat/lon coordinates for ~200k stops (they only have easting/northing). I'm in contact with naptan team, hope they will fix it soon. Currently a good option would have been to auto convert the missing coordinates from projection to lat/lon.

I've also a suggestion about the new stops.txt format after conversion, previously the stops not found in naptan had 0,0 as lat,lon. It was more convenient than empty value.

linusnorton commented 2 years ago

Sorry there was an issue with --skip-stops. If you add that command it will not download naptan data and just use the information from the transxchange file for the stops