GeoJSON in GTFS? – From Discussion to Reality

🦜 In response to the discussions held last August, MobilityData has reviewed your comments and expectations.

In this document, we have included a stakeholder outreach findings, a comparative analysis between GeoJSON and GPKG, as well as 2 options to consider and a suggestion.

👀 TL;DR

MobilityData has reached out to stakeholders representing agencies/users with limited technical capacity and resources to make sure that we are aware of possible implications for them.
Based on the feedback, we propose introducing GeoJSON as the format for expressing vector geospatial data in GTFS, especially for polygon and linestring geometry.
We propose addressing locations.geojson (polygons) first and addressing shapes.geojson (linestring/route shapes) afterward.
📯 Please review and leave a comment in this document before attending this meeting.
This meeting will cover the points highlighted in the document, confirm consensus around the option and propose a path forward for GeoJSON in GTFS.

📔 Please let us know if you would like to propose and present an alternative during the meeting, we can reserve a few minutes for you.

Disclaimer: This is not a GTFS-Flex working group meeting