Live world map + list of GTFS Static + RT adoption #4

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opened 2026-03-05 23:22:36 +00:00 by maxtkc · 1 comment

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2026-03-05 23:22:36 +00:00

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Lets automate the tracking of who has implement GTFS around the world. Lets pull from various aggregators. At first, we don't need to map every route (though this would be cool, and we could use LOOM to do it). There are two parts to this, the interface, and the "crawler".

The interface should be fairly simple. List view and map view (like TGTG). MVP would be show a point for every system with red for none, yellow for static, green for realtime. Some caveats: they might be published in some places and not in others.

The scraping is the tricky and fun part. We can pull from a bunch of different already aggregated systems (transitland, mobility database, etc). Figuring out what exists is trickier. We could build off of Fabio's work here: https://fabiobarbero.eu/posts/ontrains-2/

Google is probably the most useful use of gtfs rt, and it seems like many agencies have feeds but haven't submitted them to google. We could probably figure this out by searching for stops from the feed on google. TBD

`(map|world|univers).gtfs.zone` Lets automate the tracking of who has implement GTFS around the world. Lets pull from various aggregators. At first, we don't need to map every route (though this would be cool, and we could use LOOM to do it). There are two parts to this, the interface, and the "crawler". The interface should be fairly simple. List view and map view (like TGTG). MVP would be show a point for every system with red for none, yellow for static, green for realtime. Some caveats: they might be published in some places and not in others. The scraping is the tricky and fun part. We can pull from a bunch of different already aggregated systems (transitland, mobility database, etc). Figuring out what exists is trickier. We could build off of Fabio's work here: https://fabiobarbero.eu/posts/ontrains-2/ Google is probably the most useful use of gtfs rt, and it seems like many agencies have feeds but haven't submitted them to google. We could probably figure this out by searching for stops from the feed on google. TBD

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rhorridge commented

2026-03-07 10:29:14 +00:00

Interesting. Would be useful to get an idea of the general state of GTFS data availability internationally.

I'm assuming the UIC codes in the blog post come from this source: https://github.com/trainline-eu/stations UK Stations do seem to have UIC codes in that database. Interestingly, we use 5 character UIC codes and these all seem to be 7 character. The prefix for the UK must be 70.

Interesting. Would be useful to get an idea of the general state of GTFS data availability internationally. I'm assuming the UIC codes in the blog post come from this source: https://github.com/trainline-eu/stations UK Stations do seem to have UIC codes in that database. Interestingly, we use 5 character UIC codes and these all seem to be 7 character. The prefix for the UK must be 70.

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