[iRail] GTFS feed for NMBS/SNCB: working on an updated publishing strategy

[Stefan de Konink]

How is lobby to get NMBS to publish their feed to Google under CC-0 to the local community?

Stefan

-----Original Message-----
From: "Pieter Colpaert" <pieter at iRail.be>
Sent: ‎27-‎7-‎2016 11:27
To: "iRail list" <irail at list.irail.be>
Subject: GTFS feed for NMBS/SNCB: working on an updated publishing strategy

Hi all,

We are updating the frequency in which we publish our GTFS feeds and are 
running the first tests, as we noticed that scraping once a year is not 
enough: small updates happen throughout the year.

What's going to happen now:

At the end of the month (28th-29th), we're now going to scrape a new 
GTFS file for the month itself and the following 3months. Each month 
we're going to publish a new version with a filename that looks like 
this: http://gtfs.irail.be/nmbs/nmbs-{year}-{month}.zip. When we are 
confident that these new feeds (which are not too much different than 
the current 2016 feed) are stable, we're going to adapt the 
nmbs-latest.zip link to the last zip file we scraped and also update our 
GTFS-RT.

What can you do for us:

  * Does this process work for you? Should we have a smaller or bigger 
overlapping time interval?
  * Give us feedback on the GTFS dump we generated yesterday: 
http://gtfs.irail.be/nmbs/nmbs-2016-07.zip. What are we doing right, 
what are we doing wrong? Please provide us with feedback on this 
repository using github over here: 
https://github.com/iRail/brail2gtfs/issues (there are already some 
issues open which we will fix soon, and some which have lower priority 
for the time being).

Kind regards,

Pieter
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