penguinstransittoolbox 0.1.0

Penguin's Transit Toolbox : a simple python toolbox for managing GTFS data. Work in progress

Penguin's Transit Toolbox

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Penguin's Transit Toolbox : a simple python toolbox for managing GTFS data. Work in progress

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Summary

• Features
• Installation
• Usage examples
• Documentation
• Requirements
• License
• Project Status
• References

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Features

• Loading of GTFS files, either individually or in a dictionnary ;
• Support of both standard and spatial tables ;
• Export of stops and shapes as GIS-ready files ;
• Detection of available files ;
• Geometry validation ;
• Compatibility with pandas, geopandas and shapely.

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Installation

For local development only (for now).

pip install -e .

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Usage examples

Importing the package :

import penguinstransittoolbox as ptt

Loading a feed and exporting its geographical features to GIS-ready files :

feed = ptt.zip.load_feed('example/feed.zip')
# export the stops as GeoPackage (the default output format)
ptt.gis.export_stops(feed['stops'], output='stops.gpkg')
# export the shapes as ESRI Shapefile
ptt.gis.export_shapes(feed['shapes'], output='shapes.shp', format='Shapefile')

Documentation

The documentation is available here.

Requirements

• Python >= 3.9
• pandas >= 1.5
• geopandas >= 0.13
• shapely >= 2.0
• requests >= 2.30

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License

This project is released under The Unlicense, dedicated to the public domain.

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Project Status

This project is in early development and subject to change. Contributions, feedback and issue reports are welcome.

References

• GTFS specification
• pandas
• geopandas
• shapely
• requests