Models GTFS data in a database.
Project description
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Overview
pygtfs is a library that models information stored in Google’s [General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)](https://developers.google.com/transit/) format. GTFS is a format designed to specify information about a transit system, such as a city’s subways or a private company’s bus services. pygtfs stores information in an SQLite database using SQLAlchemy to facilitate the storage of Python objects in a relational database.
pygtfs is a fork of @eoghanmurray’s fork of a @andrewblim’s gtfs-sql which is a fork of @bmander’s gtfs. See the git logs for more fun history.
License: MIT, included in license.txt.
Dependencies
[SQLAlchemy](http://www.sqlalchemy.org/) 0.7.8. Used for all mapping of GTFS objects to the relational DB. You’ll need to be familiar with it to read the code; the [documentation](http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/) is pretty solid.
[pytz](http://pytz.sourceforge.net/) 2012d. A few GTFS fields are expected to be in a [tz time zone format](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones).
[six](http://pythonhosted.org/six/). Used in order to support python2 and python3 in a single code base.
[docopt](http://docopt.org/). Pythonic command line arguments parser, that will make you smile
Installation
Get [setuptools](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools) if you don’t have it, clone the repo, and use python setup.py install.
Documentation
Hosted on https://pygtfs.readthedocs.org/
TODO
Improve testing; add some unit testing framework and test with a variety of GTFS data feeds.
Add more docs
Why fork?
natively support several gtfs feeds per database
less SLOC, more DRY
add python3 support
renamed to a more generic name
will continue to maintain
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