Quickest Way to get Routes Associated with a Stop

[Jay Greenspan]

Hi. I'm new to the dataset and am using the .txt files

Given a geospatial point, I'm trying to determine the nearest stops and the routes associated with those stops. For example, the nearest T stop to my location is Forest Hills, and it's an Orange Line stop.

Getting nearby stops is obviously  no problem, but getting from there to the Route I'm finding a little convoluted. The best I can tell, I have to use geo coordinates to find a Shape entry that includes coordinates very close to the stop I'm interested in. From there I need to look up the associated Trip and then match to the Route. 

I'm wondering if there's an easier way that I'm missing. 

Thanks. 

-j

[Yuriy Yakimenko]

Why not have a small database that matches stops to routes, and then when you have a number of nearest stops just look up which routes they belong to?

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[Jay Greenspan]

On Thursday, December 22, 2022 at 4:21:12 PM UTC-5 Yuriy wrote:

Why not have a small database that matches stops to routes, and then when you have a number of nearest stops just look up which routes they belong to?

Sounds good to me. Best I can tell, to do that I'd have to follow the steps I outlined earlier. But again, I think it's likely I'm missing something. 

-j