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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon grote

Plans for India

Open ninad458 opened this issue 6 years ago • 9 comments

I don't see any coverage for India. I would like to do that. I would like to start, but I don't have any open source experience. If I have some help, India should be an interesting case to crack.

ninad458 avatar Jul 16 '18 16:07 ninad458

Check the homepage for possible ways to get started: https://transportr.app/contribute/#translating-into-your-language

grote avatar Jul 16 '18 16:07 grote

@grote English should be fine for now. Is there nothing else needed? I don't see India in the covered regions.

ninad458 avatar Jul 16 '18 17:07 ninad458

Sorry, I don't get your question. Did you read the section on the homepage about "Adding Support For More Regions"?

grote avatar Jul 16 '18 17:07 grote

Yes. It's more like a query. Will it cover automatically if people from that area start using it?

ninad458 avatar Jul 16 '18 17:07 ninad458

I don't get would you mean by "cover automatically".

grote avatar Jul 16 '18 18:07 grote

In order:

  • See if all the desired transit information is known to Navitia.
  • If not in Navitia find where the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) information can be downloaded for each transit agency that is to be added to Navitia.
  • For each feed, you need to find the license and verify it is compatible with Navitia's license requirements.
  • Submit the feeds to Navitia.

All of the above requires no programming experience at all. Once Navitia is tracking the transit agencies you need to:

  • Add support for the transit agencies' information to the Public Transport Enabler. This requires some programming knowledge but there are easy examples to follow.
  • Once support is added to Public Transport Enabler, a pull request for changes to Transportr is required. Again this requires some programming but there are easy examples to follow.

I thought all of the above was pretty evident from the page Torsten linked but apparently not.

If you wish, I can help with the last two programming steps once you do the foot work of assuring the schedule information is in Navitia.

n76 avatar Jul 16 '18 23:07 n76

@n76 thanks a lot for expanding on my explanation! I think this is even a bit more detailed than what is on the homepage. Would be great if you could do a PR to add it there: https://github.com/grote/Transportr-website/blob/master/content/contribute.md#adding-support-for-more-regions-add_region

grote avatar Jul 17 '18 00:07 grote

@n76 that does clarify it, thank you. I'll look into the initial steps.

ninad458 avatar Jul 17 '18 08:07 ninad458

AFAIK only Kochi metro feed (https://kochimetro.org/open-data/) and Delhi bus feed are published openly (https://otd.delhi.gov.in)

duggalsu avatar Sep 14 '20 22:09 duggalsu