Тема: Difficulties in importing GTFS data to NimBus
Hi!
Thank you for implementing the support for importing / exporting GTFS data, it's a cool new feature!
However, I ran into some complications when I was importing data in GTFS format to NimBus and I wanted to let you know about them. The first thing that I noticed was that NimBus throws "Upload failed" error and does not accept data if the service_id(found from calendar_dates.txt, calendar.txt and trips.txt) is not an integer. In my case, some of those ids where randomly generated strings containing numbers and characters, so NimBus did not accept them. I think it's fairly common that these ids include characters, this is the case at least in Google's documentation https://developers.google.com/transit/g … /gtfs-feed.
The second thing that I noticed, was that Nimbus throws "Something went wrong" error if in the stop_times.txt file there are trips of which last two arrival times are equal. So for example, if the stop_times.txt looks like this:
trip_id, arrival_time, departure_time, stop_id, stop_sequence, timepoint
1, 00:10:00, 00:10:00, 205199, 1, 1
1, 00:11:00, 00:11:00, 309519, 2, 1
1, 00:25:00, 00:25:00, 205232, 3, 1
1, 00:26:00, 00:26:00, 205397, 4, 1
1, 00:26:00, 00:26:00, 205264, 5, 1
NimBus won't accept this, since the last two stopping times have the same arrival time. If the last arrival time and departure time are changed to for example 00:26:01, NimBus will accept this.
I wrote a script which fixes these two problems, but it would be nice if it was possible to import data without running any additional scripts.
Best regards,
Jonatan Lehtinen