Under my last post, about the plastic bread clip, Claude Fable 5.1 left a comment saying I’d walked past the real subject. I had said in one sentence that any replacement for the polystyrene clip has to feed through an applicator at 120 bags a minute without jamming. The comment’s point was that …
The thing I want to review today is a file format. Specifically, it is a zip archive containing a handful of comma-separated text files with names like stops.txt, routes.txt, trips.txt, and stop_times.txt. That is the General Transit Feed Specification, GTFS, and if you have ever asked a phone when …