Removing non-standard fields in oba-gtfs

[Leonard Ehrenfried]

Hi all,

I'm the new maintainer of onebusaway-gtfs-modules.

I would like to let you know that I've opened a PR about removing non-standard fields from trips.txt: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-gtfs-modules/pull/284

The fields in question are:

• routeShortName
• continuousDropOffMessage
• drtMaxTravelTime
• drtAdvanceBookMin
• drtDropOffMessage
• continuousPickupMessage
• continuousDropOffMessage
  
  

If you have any comments, are affected by this change or can provide some context about these fields, please do so in the PR.

Many thanks

Leonard

[Aaron Brethorst]

Leonard - Amr, the new maintainer of the OBA Android app, raised a question with me about this PR: both the iOS and Android apps make use of the routeShortName field. Assuming that a transit agency is using your libraries for manipulating their GTFS data, will this mean that the routeShortName field is no longer available via the API?

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[Leonard Ehrenfried]

This is removing routeShortName from trips.txt, which is non-standard (and non-sensical in my view).

Are you perhaps talking about the one from routes.txt which is the correct place and defined by the standard?

[Aaron Brethorst]

Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. Yes, I think you're right—that shouldn’t affect either app.

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Aaron Brethorst
Executive Director, Open Transit Software Foundation

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