Comments on: Metro developer beta http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/2009/06/10/metro-developer-beta/ More riders and less hassle. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:43:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Aaron Antrim http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/2009/06/10/metro-developer-beta/comment-page-1/#comment-5586 Aaron Antrim Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:04:20 +0000 http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/?p=343#comment-5586 Justin, My understanding is that the GTFS only just became available, but that's from an outsider perspective. It could have been available for some time. In any case, producing and making GTFS data available is only a first step to Google Transit launch. These are the steps: (1) Publish GTFS (2) Validate GTFS - is the data correct? (3) Google creates a private "preview" (4) The agency and/or consultants and stakeholders check the preview to make sure the trip planner works as expected (5) Agency has to sign an agreement with Google So, this all takes some time. Since L.A. County GTFS is available I anticipate Google Transit will go live at some point in the future. It is, however, interesting to note that Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority <a href="http://dcist.com/2009/03/playing_around_with_the_new_gtfs_da.php" rel="nofollow">published GTFS in late March</a>. But we haven't seen them show up <a href="http://maps.google.com/intl/en/landing/transit/text.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> yet. <a href="http://dcist.com/2009/03/playing_around_with_the_new_gtfs_da.php#comment-1619444" rel="nofollow">Here's why</a>. Justin,
My understanding is that the GTFS only just became available, but that’s from an outsider perspective. It could have been available for some time. In any case, producing and making GTFS data available is only a first step to Google Transit launch. These are the steps:
(1) Publish GTFS
(2) Validate GTFS – is the data correct?
(3) Google creates a private “preview”
(4) The agency and/or consultants and stakeholders check the preview to make sure the trip planner works as expected
(5) Agency has to sign an agreement with Google

So, this all takes some time. Since L.A. County GTFS is available I anticipate Google Transit will go live at some point in the future. It is, however, interesting to note that Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority published GTFS in late March. But we haven’t seen them show up here yet. Here’s why.

]]> By: Justin N http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/2009/06/10/metro-developer-beta/comment-page-1/#comment-5584 Justin N Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:36:32 +0000 http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/?p=343#comment-5584 Okay, cool, awesome. However, if they have the GTFS data, why exactly isn't it available via the public Google Maps interface? I mean, I happen to know how to import that data into a local server and make a real pretty trip planner out of it- but I doubt most riders do. Okay, cool, awesome. However, if they have the GTFS data, why exactly isn’t it available via the public Google Maps interface? I mean, I happen to know how to import that data into a local server and make a real pretty trip planner out of it- but I doubt most riders do.

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