[iRail] GTFS - Data Expired

Wed Dec 28 18:37:08 UTC 2016

Thank you for the update Pieter.  Please keep me informed.

We look forward to receiving the data as soon as possible.

Thank you,
David Heath
David Heath | 425-705-8034  | winmaps at microsoft.com<mailto:winmaps at microsoft.com>

From: Pieter Colpaert [mailto:pieter.colpaert at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Pieter Colpaert
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 5:28 AM
To: Windows Maps <winmaps at microsoft.com>
Cc: irail at list.irail.be
Subject: Re: GTFS - Data Expired

Dear David,

We have heard back from STIB. They acknowledge the problem. It is probably due to them launching an open data portal just before their holiday and having broken the update cycle in some way...

The fact that they did not reply earlier is because their data team is on holiday and will not be able to provide an update of the dataset until after the end of the year holidays. How Google at this point is still able to provide MIVB/STIB information is a riddle to me.

I'm incredibly annoyed by this. I hope MIVB/STIB will act quickly, yet at this moment, it is out of our control. Unless we'd start scraping their website for a more reliable data stream...

Kind regards,

Pieter
On 27-12-16 20:17, Windows Maps wrote:
Hello,

We have noticed that the GTFS data that we are using found at:
http://gtfs.irail.be/mivb/mivb-gtfs.zip has an expiration date that has past, indicating that your GTFS data has expired.

Our ingestion process takes around a week, so we are looking to see if you can update the file at the URL as soon as possible.

Your data has been expired for 9 days.  Bing Maps automatically removes data that has been expired for 14 days.

Your data will be automatically removed in 5 days, so we are looking to get the data updated as soon as possible.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call or send me an email.

Thank you,
David Heath
David Heath | 425-705-8034  | winmaps at microsoft.com<mailto:winmaps at microsoft.com>

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