For those of you looking for RIPTA information (very small relief)

0 views
Skip to first unread message

DJones

unread,
Sep 12, 2009, 12:45:54 AM9/12/09
to Google Transit Trip Planner
I like many others have seen the RIPTA feed along with some other
transit providers are down,
It is my ULTIMATE hope that in the future GOOGLE thinks about
allowing users to view ARCHIVED data for transit feeds for
participating agencies !

Atleast then users can get a general idea of bus routes and
APPROXIMATE time schedules.


For now their is some VERY small relief

Allot of users have created some maps that might help.

For instance this "B Line" map , which to first glance to me looks
like the trolley maps.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=113112804634316037889.000467b6293bc56032bb0

Their are other user created maps, you can look threw them simply by
searching for the word "RIPTA" and choosing from the advanced
options , "User created content".


Dear
Google ,

Please light a fire under RIPTA 's but and get these feeds moving
again !, there are just far to many people relying on this.


Kind Regards,
DJ

Tom Brown

unread,
Sep 16, 2009, 10:45:27 AM9/16/09
to Google Transit Trip Planner
On Sep 11, 9:45 pm, DJones <djoneslocker2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is my ULTIMATE hope that in the future  GOOGLE  thinks about
> allowing users to view ARCHIVED data for transit feeds for
> participating agencies !

Unfortunately we are not able to serve data for a large range of
dates. We focus our coverage on the future.
My ultimate hope is that all agencies will be as diligent about making
schedules available in a machine-readable format as they are today
about publishing them for people.


> Dear
> Google ,
>
> Please light a fire under RIPTA 's but and get these feeds moving
> again !, there are just far to many people relying on this.

We do our best to encourage agencies to provide great data but in the
end they are best motivated by feedback from riders such as
yourselves. Please let them know how useful their data is when
integrated into Google Maps.

DJones

unread,
Sep 22, 2009, 10:28:06 PM9/22/09
to Google Transit Trip Planner
Tom,

WHAT IN THE WORLD

Could possibly be stopping google from allowing users to view archived
routes !?

Other than the server bill. ?


Simply show a overlay watermark that alerts the user that the routes
are not current. (RealTime)

This would help everyone out, not to mention the environment !

Aaron

unread,
Oct 2, 2009, 2:49:22 PM10/2/09
to Google Transit Trip Planner
Tom,

I spoke with someone at RIPTA who said that they were trying to
contact someone at Google to resolve some data validation errors that
were preventing the data from being successfully uploaded. However,
nobody from Google had responded regarding the corrective course of
action as of Wednesday, 9/30/09. Could you or someone else please
contact RIPTA as soon as possible to resolve this problem and restore
the use of this valuable transit tool? Thanks.
> > integrated into Google Maps.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Aaron

unread,
Oct 6, 2009, 2:40:17 PM10/6/09
to Google Transit Trip Planner
Just giving this thread a bump. It's been 39 days since Google
Transit has not been been working for RIPTA routes. Could someone
please contact RIPTA and resolve the data validation issue? Thanks.
> > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -

Joe Hughes

unread,
Oct 6, 2009, 6:00:36 PM10/6/09
to Google Transit Trip Planner
Hi Aaron,

Rest assured that we're on the case--we've been in touch with RIPTA,
and hope to have the service restored soon. Apologies for the outage;
it turns out that there were several cases where messages didn't reach
the right people. For future reference, data providers should always
use transit-...@google.com (or the official partner support group
at http://groups.google.com/group/google-transit-partner-support ) to
get help solving data issues.

Cheers,
Joe Hughes
Google

Aaron

unread,
Oct 7, 2009, 6:03:29 AM10/7/09
to Google Transit Trip Planner
I'm so happy to hear that, Joe. Thanks so much.

On Oct 6, 6:00 pm, Joe Hughes <joe.hughes.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> Rest assured that we're on the case--we've been in touch with RIPTA,
> and hope to have the service restored soon.  Apologies for the outage;
> it turns out that there were several cases where messages didn't reach
> the right people.  For future reference, data providers should always
> use transit-partn...@google.com (or the official partner support group
> athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-transit-partner-support) to

Tom Brown

unread,
Oct 13, 2009, 2:35:07 PM10/13/09
to Google Transit Trip Planner
RIPTA returned this weekend. Sorry again for the outage.
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages