Riding transit to California's beaches
California Coastal Commission maps car parking at 1,600+ public access points. A spatial join with Transitland Datasets reveals which trailheads, surf spots, and overlooks can be reached by bus or rail.
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Occasional updates on Interline's Transitland data platform
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Explore GTFS-Pathways station layouts using Transitland
Visualize subway station topologies. Inspect wheelchair-accessible navigation. Transitland's free GTFS-Pathways viewer is powered by Interline Station Editor.
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Same data, different zip: How to identify unique GTFS feed versions
Standard zip hashes are unreliable for GTFS versioning due to variable metadata. Learn to use content-aware checksums to accurately identify unique transit datasets.
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Easily inspect GTFS Realtime using Transitland's website or API
Web browsers and text editors can't open GTFS Realtime. But with Transitland, you now can.
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Announcing transitland-lib v1.0.0
We're pleased to announce the release of transitland-lib version 1.0.0. This software library, written in
Transitland for nighttime
Our engineering team has recently been refactoring some of the internals of the Transitland website. The main goal has been
Built with Transitland: Digital departures screen
Want to build your own display to show when a bus, train, or ferry next departs? Here's a fun Instructables how-to guide.
How current is that schedule?
The GTFS Best Practices guide recommends publishing data for the current data plus at least 7 days in the future. We've used the Transitland archives to assess how many feeds meet this goal.
Giving equal prominence to buses and trains on the map
We've refined Transitland's global map to emphasize where riders can access the most frequent transit service. Thanks to leaders at San Francisco's transit agency for informing this improvement.
Turning off the Transitland v1 Datastore API
We announced the multi-step deprecation of the Transitland v1 API in a blog post in 2019. The time has now come the Interline team to finally turn off the v1 Datastore API.
Downloading archived GTFS feed versions from Transitland
We are adjusting access to Transitland's GTFS feed version archive to better balance concerns.
Transitland Vector Tile Improvements
Since releasing the global transit map and v2 Vector Tiles API last year, we've added a variety of improvements in functionality and in rendering.