On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Hugh Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > I can sympathise with your pragmatism, and was starting realise that > must be what's behind your choice. Sad but true. I still think while > you can accept CSV, you should want to cast into XML pretty soon to > make it nice to work with. Ultimately, it's possibly not that important.
Public transport schedule data tends to be so voluminous that "nice to work with" generally means putting it into a database in any case. However, for those who are more comfortable working with XML, there's GTFS-to-TransXChange conversion code by Joachim Pheiffer in the "GoogleTransitDataFeed" open-source project: http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/ Additionally, Nick Knowles and our own Peter Miller have done some interesting work attempting to reconcile the implicit GTFS data model with TransModel--Peter, is your latest document publicly available online somewhere? Devising an XML schema that allowed lossless conversion to and from GTFS would be an interesting project. Joe _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
