Extractor: clean up and normalize station names
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Description
I just had a look at the Berlin GTFS feeds for this year.
> https://daten.berlin.de/datensaetze/vbb-fahrplandaten-januar-2017-bis-dezember-2017
> stops.txt, CC-BY 3.0 licensed: http://www.vbb.de/de/datei/GTFS_VBB_Jan_Dez2017.zip
I can see three concrete issues:
1/ In there stations for the U-Bahn are named `U Alexanderplatz (Berlin)`, and other kind of stations e.g. bus lines have a different naming scheme. We probably don't want to show and store the `(Berlin)` suffix (what about the `U ` prefix?) and want to associate a type with these stops. (Sidenote: other delimiters seem to be `/` and extra information in brackets `[x]` _in this dataset_!)
2/ There are multiple stops with _almost_ the same name in there, with some diffs being only the number of spaces in stop name. We probably should trim and collapse multiple spaces within stop names.
3/ There are multiple stops for each stop name in the data. We probably can deduplicate based on their location (e.g. haversine < 500m is probably the same stop). How should we handle cases where the name is the same but the location is different?
The issues above are not specifically for the Berlin GTFS feeds — there's probably more out there.
Related:
- Deduplication - https://github.com/mapbox/directions-transit/issues/45 station lookup by coordinate
- Names - https://github.com/mapbox/directions-transit/issues/19 name to station / location to station
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Research direction
Start by examining the GTFS stops.txt data described in the issue and review related issues #45 and #19. Establish agreed rules for prefix and suffix handling, whitespace normalization, station typing, and coordinate-based deduplication, including differing locations, before determining what tests or extractor changes are needed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100