Mapzen’s Transitland is a library/service for aggregating and providing data from GTFS on a multi-agency/multi-region scale. Transitland aims to provide client-level (the ‘faucet’) services. TransitFeeds is a comparable service, but without US-based evangilism.
Transitlands provides
- A machine-readable registry of GTFS feeds (kinda like the GTFS Data Exchange).
- GeoJSON based APIs for discovering operators, routes, stops, etc. The field nomenclature from the GTFS is used for fieldnames in the APIs. It also contains links to OpenStreetMap data for display on a map. No schedules yet.
- Globally unique ids (GUIDs!) for transit agencies/stops/etc. With one API call, you could get info for any stop in the system… which they hope to take worldwide.
I wish them luck!
More info via this blog.