Taking GTFS data and importing into ArcGIS

[IdahoDOT]

We have collected data for a number of fixed route providers in Idaho
and have assembled the necessary GTFS files. We would like to import
a portion of the GTFS data that we've collected to map the placement
of bus routes in ArcGIS - we are only interested in the locations of
bus stops and the interconnecting route on the map - not concerned
about schedule and other info.

There seems to be postings on the site about going from ArcGIS to
GTFS, but not the other way. Any thoughts??

[Edward Vielmetti]

John - there's a tool that goes from GTFS to KML:

http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/KMLWriter

and a KML to shape file tool at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygearth/

which, when combined, at least nominally should do what you want them to do.

thanks

Ed

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[John Krause]

Ed,

I was able to use the KMLWRITER application to get files to where I could view in Google Earth, but am a little stymied with what to do with the second set of Python files. I am not a GIS aficionado. Can you give me an idea what to do with the KML to Shape File tool??

Thanks!

John

[Edward Vielmetti]

John - I picked up the pygearth tools from this ESRI forum

http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=1149&t=238849

You might ask there; I've used the kmlwriter tools but not the others
so I don't have first hand knowledge.

thanks

Ed

[T Sobota]

Note that the KML output will represent individual trip patterns,
which individually will typically differ from (but in sum are
generalized to) what a transit agency otherwise defines as a route.
If a "route" only has a single manner in which it operates (i.e. a one-
way loop with no deviations) - then that individual trip pattern would
match the "route". But a "route" that has trips that go in two
directions (back and forth), or variants of trips (sometimes serving
one corridor versus another, truncated at either end, etc.) would
return however many trip pattern type lines in the KML output.

Tim Sobota
Metro Transit, City of Madison

On Mar 2, 3:44 am, Edward Vielmetti <edward.vielme...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> John - there's a tool that goes from GTFS to KML:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/KMLWriter
>
> and a KML to shape file tool at
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygearth/
>
> which, when combined, at least nominally should do what you want them to do.
>
> thanks
>
> Ed
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:28 PM, IdahoDOT <john.kra...@itd.idaho.gov> wrote:
> > We have collected data for a number of fixed route providers in Idaho
> > and have assembled the necessary GTFS files.  We would like to import
> > a portion of the GTFS data that we've collected to map the placement
> > of bus routes in ArcGIS - we are only interested in the locations of
> > bus stops and the interconnecting route on the map - not concerned
> > about schedule and other info.
>
> > There seems to be postings on the site about going from ArcGIS to
> > GTFS, but not the other way.  Any thoughts??
>
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> > For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/googletransit?hl=en.

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> Edward Vielmetti
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