Comments for Kurt Raschke

Comment on A Python script for visualizing GTFS data by Michael Perkins

Michael Perkins — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:34:36 +0000

I started working on something like this for perl to import GTFS into mySQL:

https://github.com/perkinsms/Perl-GTFS

Comment on A Python script for visualizing GTFS data by Kurt Raschke

Kurt Raschke — Sat, 14 May 2011 16:31:19 +0000

Thanks for the tip; I’ll definitely have to check it out.

Comment on A Python script for visualizing GTFS data by William Lachance

William Lachance — Thu, 12 May 2011 22:29:46 +0000

Oh, also, I wrote up a script to automatically generate headsigns for an agency that lacked them (Edmonton Transit Authority). It’s not perfect but it works well enough for my purposes. Check it out here:

https://github.com/wlach/routez/blob/master/src/gtfs-hacks/update-edmonton-gtfs.py

Comment on A Python script for visualizing GTFS data by William Lachance

William Lachance — Thu, 12 May 2011 22:23:14 +0000

You should look at Brandon Martin Anderson’s GTFS library. It uses SQLAlchemy to create an SQLite database out of a GTFS feed, after which you can query the contents using a pretty convenient API. I’ve been using it for a few experiments similar to yours with great success.

https://github.com/bmander/gtfs (the original)
https://github.com/wlach/gtfs (my fork)

Comment on Kermit: more than a file transfer program, a tangible link to the past by Kurt Raschke

Kurt Raschke — Wed, 11 May 2011 21:39:36 +0000

Indeed, per the Kermit Project's own history of the project, the project was launched in 1981 (thirty years ago now) to provide a more resilient, cross-platform alternative to XMODEM. XMODEM worked well over clean lines between homogeneous systems, but Columbia needed a cross-platform solution which would work even over unreliable links, connections through protocol translators which tended to mangle binary transfers, etc.

Comment on Kermit: more than a file transfer program, a tangible link to the past by Peter Zelchenko

Peter Zelchenko — Sun, 08 May 2011 12:24:02 +0000

Hi, Kurt. Wasn’t Kermit first used in 1981? I’m pretty sure Ward Christensen’s MODEM / CMODEM / XMODEM protocol dates from 1977, even before the blizzard in February 1979 that launched its popular use in CBBS.

Comment on Software package updates by Kurt Raschke | Documentation for geolucidate

Kurt Raschke | Documentation for geolucidate — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:34:19 +0000

[...] promised, I have completed documentation for geolucidate, and uploaded it to PyPI (where it can be viewed [...]

Comment on Cheap airport data by Kurt Raschke | First airports, now airlines

Kurt Raschke | First airports, now airlines — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:00:25 +0000

[...] month, I wrote about using the DBpedia project to extract data about airports from Wikipedia articles. The next logical [...]

Comment on Cheap airport data by Kurt Raschke | More free airport data

Kurt Raschke | More free airport data — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:25:35 +0000

[...] have continued work on my project to extract free airport data from Wikipedia using DBpedia‘s SPARQL endpoint. My initial [...]

Comment on Cheap airport data by Ted Thibodeau Jr

Ted Thibodeau Jr — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:37:08 +0000

Thanks for this post! We very much encourage this "correct and improve Wikipedia content" approach to concerns with the data found in DBpedia. DBpedia will indeed be moving to take (roughly -- there is some latency even when working against the firehose Wikipedia update stream) real-time updates from Wikipedia. You can see this in action on the staging version, at http://dbpedia-live.openlinksw.com/sparql. (Note that the staging version is running on a lower-powered configuration than the main DBpedia, so please be considerate in your queries, and realize that performance will improve when this goes fully live.)