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Re: 3 bugs: "arrive by" not working; false error message; radio button selection moves

derek.hofm...@gmail.com (Derek Hofmann) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:06:15 UT

Thanks, Joe. That addresses bug #1. What about bugs #2 and #3?

Re: 3 bugs: "arrive by" not working; false error message; radio button selection moves

joe.hughes.c...@gmail.com (Joe Hughes) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:27:40 UT

Hi Derek,
The transit team at Google definitely notes all the feedback on this
group, though we don't always have time to respond to every message.
In any case, the trip you're asking for crosses such a large area that
the Google Maps trip planner can't always find good results in a
reasonable amount of time. However, the transit team is continually

Re: Frequencies table "start_time" and "end_time" ignored

joe.hughes.c...@gmail.com (Joe Hughes) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:16:06 UT

Hi Transit001,
For in-depth debugging of the interactions of a particular feed with
the Google Maps trip planner, I recommend using the Google Transit
Partner Support Group:
[link]
Cheers,
Joe Hughes
Google

Re: 3 bugs: "arrive by" not working; false error message; radio button selection moves

derek.hofm...@gmail.com (Derek Hofmann) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:36:29 UT

It's been almost 3 months. Has any progress been made on these bugs?

Frequencies table "start_time" and "end_time" ignored

abcdz...@gmail.com (Transit001) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:51:58 UT

Hello,
I am wondering why the columns "start_time" and "end_time" in the
Frequencies table are ignored by the Trip Planner? This has been the
case for a long time, goes against the GTFS specification, and has the
potential to cause misleading results to users. Can this issue be
corrected?
Thanks for any assistance.

Re: How can I use google transit feed files for traffic engineering?

abcdz...@gmail.com (Transit001) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:25:54 UT

If you use the feed validator tool, it will make a nice plot of all
the bus stops as waypoints in a Google Maps widget. Not sure about
bus routes though. GTFS allows specifying custom path colors in the
database with the "route_color" column and for the text with the
"route_text_color" column.

Re: Multiple timezones

jeh...@gmail.com (Jehiah) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:59:40 UT

Hi Levi. This might be a better question for the transit-developers or
the gtfs-changes mailing list but i'll try to answer anyway
[link]
[link]
all time values for a feed should be specified in relation to the
timezone listed in agencies.txt

Re: Los Angeles Metro Gold Line, East LA Extension

joe.hughes.c...@gmail.com (Joe Hughes) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:10:55 UT

Just a quick update, Google now has updated information from LA Metro,
and you can now get East LA Gold Line directions on Google Maps.
Here's an example: [link]
Happy Holidays,
Joe Hughes
Google

GTFS -- Continued implementation problems with Frequencies.txt

abcdz...@gmail.com (Transit001) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:11:00 UT

Hello,
This is a follow-up to the past threads:
[link]
and
[link]

Multiple timezones

leviba...@gmail.com (Levi) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:28:46 UT

How do I show multiple timezones correct for my feed? I have one stop
that is in Eastern and the rest are in central time. I am getting
conflicting responses from Google and this is the only thing holding
up my feed from being posted.

Re: missing schedule data in Austria

noa...@gmail.com (Noam Ben Haim) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:57:51 UT

Hello Andreas
We are aware of the issue and working with the provider of the data to fix
it. We know how much our users in Austria care about this service and always
work hard to make sure we give the best service. For reasons that are not up
to us, we do not have the ability to provide the Google Transit service in

Re: Joining Google Transit

databasemana...@appalcart.com (Jim Harrison) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:54:45 UT

Hi Jessica,

I think have or had the information needed last summer, looked good in the
feed validator, looked good in the schedule viewer, of course some info may
well have changed by this point.

This was the answer I received last July after attempting to provide the
information:

Still waiting for that person to "notify me of the progress".

Re: Joining Google Transit

jessicad...@gmail.com (Jessica) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:33:41 UT

Hi Jim,

Thank you for your continued interest in Google Maps. We will be
delighted to have you on Google Maps.

We have been working on a new data submission tool, and have several
agencies pilot it. The result is promising.
We hope to make this available to all agencies early 2010.

In the mean while, please prepare your feed according to information

missing schedule data in Austria

andreas.starlin...@gmail.com (Andreas) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:07:55 UT

hi, until yesterday a click on a transit station in a city of Austria
(e.g. Linz or Vienna) gave me the available trams/buses for this
station + its schedules, the schedules are now suddenly gone, what has
happened to them?

Joining Google Transit

databasemana...@appalcart.com (Jim Harrison) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:39:12 UT

Good Morning Group,

Over a year ago the director of our transit agency asked that we try and put
together the data to get our agency listed on Google Transit after receiving
requests from our riders and I attempted to begin the process.

Back in March 2009 we received the following as part of an email: