Good morning
Regarding the PTNA system
How often are Israel’s GTFS files updated in the system?
in which system? It does not seem something to be maintained as part of OpenStreetMap - though they may be using OSM for background maps
can you link relevant site/project which has this outdated GTFS files?
I believe PTNA updates GTFS files once a month. @ToniE care to chime in?
Edit: you can always see the most recent date here: PTNA - GTFS Analysis in this case it’s been updated today, possibly after you posted this thread.
The GTFS files are published once a day and are valid for one month from the date of publication.
when GTFS files at PTNA update is done once a month, then there are days when there is no current file, (as happened today for a few hours).
But if the frequency will be higher, like twice a month, then there will always be current information.
At the moment, ptna take the first gtfs feed available in a month and skips the following ones.
PTNA also keeps the previous one. Deleting older ones is a manual task at the moment but will be automated such that those which are referred by using gtfs:release_date will not be deleted. Thats a bit tricky to implement.
Updating GTFS feeds only once a month is done to not overload mappers by trying to keep OSM date uptodate regarding gtfs:* tags, if route_ids or trip_ids are very volatile.
I was thinking about implementing a feed specific update interval, but this requires the automated delete process to work properly.
Is it possible to update specifically Israel twice a month?
Regarding automated deletion, specifically for Israel I don’t expect we would use gtfs:release_date in the foreseeable future (if ever), nor would we ever specify a specific GTFS version for a route in the CSV files (since they are automated by PTNA), so it should be safe to automatically delete older versions without any special checks.
Off topic: @ירח_אפל I’m really happy to see you’re using PTNA! ToniE is its developer, but I’m the one who made import templates possible (@bus etc.) so I’m glad to see it’s getting use.
Sure, I can always start an update manually - for the time being.