On one hand, this is a great effort and I'm sure will help commuters a ton.<p>But on the other, why on earth does the bay area have 31+ different transit agencies??
The article didn't explain what a GTFS feed was, and my first thought was it's a "Get The Fuck Somewhere feed". Turns out it's General Transit Feed Specification.
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I just tried to sign up and got directed here:
<a href="https://511.org/open-data/transit" rel="nofollow">https://511.org/open-data/transit</a><p>It looks like the bulk data feeds are available but the APIs are not. I am particularly interested in:<p><pre><code> Real-time Vehicle Monitoring (SIRI)
Real-time Vehicle Monitoring API provides information about current location and expected activities of a vehicle in XML and JSON formats.
Endpoint: http://api.511.org/transit/TBD
Allowable parameters: api_key (mandatory) and TBD
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Also, looks like there's an error in "GTFS-Realtime Vehicle Positions" description - it claims:<p><pre><code> GTFS-Realtime Trip Updates provides real-time updates on the vehicle positions for an agency in the Protocol Buffer format.</code></pre>
I note that OpenStreetMap apparently has tags for mapping between OSM nodes and GTFS. I wonder how much GTFS data gets imported into OSM.<p><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/General_Transit_Feed_Specification" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/General_Transit_Feed_Spe...</a>