Feedvalidator Issues
Tim Hennig
Hello,
I am trying to validate my Google Transit feeds using the
feedvalidator.exe. I have tried to open the feedvalidator.exe and
drag-and-drop the WinZip version (tried a folder directory version
too), but the feedvalidator.exe will show an error message for a
second (before I can read it) and close. I have tried to use another
computer and reinstall the feedvalidator.exe file onto my computer,
but it still errors out.
Has this happen to anyone? If so how did you fix this problem?
Thanks,
Tim Hennig
Planner (Transportation/GIS Analyst)
Green Bay, WI
Devin Braun
Have you tried starting the program via a command prompt instead of
double clicking the icon?
I'm unsure of your skill level with MS-DOS so I'm writing this like you
don't know much about MS-DOS.
Go to Start -> Run and type "cmd" and then hit enter. Navigate to the
folder where the feed validator is by using the command "cd
c:\yourfeedvalidatordirectory"
When the MS-DOS prompt says "c:\yourfeedvalidatordirectory", type in
feedvalidator.exe and it should ask you for the location of your feed.
Type in the location of your feed and press enter. If there's an error,
it should now just show up in the MS-DOS widow without disappearing.
Regards,
Devin Braun
San Diego MTS
Roger Slevin
Whilst I have had no experience of trying to use the feed validator myself,
my colleague who has tried to use it found that the particular dataset that
we are uploading (which is massive) could not be validated, at least not on
his computers. We think, for our data, it requires a lot more memory - but I
don't think we have tried it again recently to see if this memory
requirement has been reduced since our first failures.
I suspect that this is not the same problem as you have encountered,
therefore, but thought it worth posting this in case there is to be a review
of the validator software - as it would be good to know what the system
requirements are, and therefore to be able to use it routinely to check our
data.
Best wishes
Roger
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Subject: Feedvalidator Issues
Feedvalidator.exe Issues
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Tim Hennig
I tried typing the information from the command prompt and I now can
see the error message.
It looks like it has to do with the python script. My error
message...
ERROR: 5883 errors and 218 warning found
Traceback <most recent call last>:
file "feedvalidator.py", line 274, in ?
File "feedvalidator.py", line 165, in WriteOutput
File "_strptime.pyc", line 296, strptime
ValueError: unvonverted data remains: 2
What do you think this might be? I am I missing some python script
programs?
I downloaded a new file, tried it, same error.
Thanks,
Tim Hennig
Planner (Transportation/GIS Analyst)
Green Bay, WI
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Bob Heitzman
a sample.
Joe Hughes
Apologies for the poor error handling in that case; if you'd like to
send me (or Fred) a copy of your feed off-list, I'll use it to test
that this is correctly handled in the next release of the open-source
feed-reading library (including FeedValidator).
In the meantime, it sounds like there could be an issue with the way
that you're formatting your dates or times; please double-check that
they match the spec. (You can also look at the feeds that other
agencies have made publicly available for examples:
http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds ).
Thanks,
Joe
Tim Hennig
I sent Fred Fang my transit feeds early this morning. I also sent him
an image of my DOS error message. I have not heard from him regarding
this issue. Do you work at Google (or with Fred)? If so, please ask
him for my transit feeds or I can send you them through email.
I will look into my dates and let you know what I come up with.
Thanks for all the help!
Tim Hennig
Planner (Transportation/GIS Analyst)
Green Bay, WI
On Nov 12, 12:25 pm, "Joe Hughes" <joe.hughes.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Apologies for the poor error handling in that case; if you'd like to
> send me (or Fred) a copy of your feed off-list, I'll use it to test
> that this is correctly handled in the next release of the open-source
> feed-reading library (including FeedValidator).
>
> In the meantime, it sounds like there could be an issue with the way
> that you're formatting your dates or times; please double-check that
> they match the spec. (You can also look at the feeds that other
> agencies have made publicly available for examples:http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds).
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
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Tim Hennig
FYI... you are correct! I typed in the wrong date format. My validation
results outputted into a webpage and now I have...
GTFS validation results for feed:
C:\GoogleTools\transitfeed\GoogleTransit
Agencies: Green Bay Metro Transit
Routes: 15
Stops: 1106
Trips: 28
Shapes: 0
Effective: January 01, 2007 to December 31, 2009
5880 errors and 218 warnings found
This now gives a starting point regarding my feeds.
Once again, thanks for all the help!
Tim Hennig
Planner (Transportation/GIS Analyst)
Green Bay, WI
On Nov 12, 12:25 pm, "Joe Hughes" <joe.hughes.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Apologies for the poor error handling in that case; if you'd like to
> send me (or Fred) a copy of your feed off-list, I'll use it to test
> that this is correctly handled in the next release of the open-source
> feed-reading library (including FeedValidator).
>
> In the meantime, it sounds like there could be an issue with the way
> that you're formatting your dates or times; please double-check that
> they match the spec. (You can also look at the feeds that other
> agencies have made publicly available for examples:http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds).
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
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