Create your data feed

Publish your GTFS feed data

Adjacent: GTFS quality requirements and best practices

To make your General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) feed bachelor to Google, we recommend you publish it on the spider web. Google periodically fetches your transit data from this spider web location to ensure that Google Maps has your most up-to-date feed information. Yous can besides choose to upload your feed data manually.

Choose a publishing option

At that place are several locations where you lot can publish your feed on the web. You can choose from the following options:

  • Bureau westwardebsite (recommended): Publish your feed on your own website. To countersign protect the URL, utilize HTTP Basic and Digest authentication. NTLM, or IIS and Win32, hallmark isn't supported.
  • Agency FTP server: Host your feed on your FTP server. You lot can password protect the URL with standard FTP authentication mechanisms.
  • Rented host from an FTP provider: Host your feed through rented FTP space. To observe a provider, exercise a Google search for "FTP hosting service."
  • Google Drive: Publish your feed on Google Bulldoze. Once you save the URL of your feed data ZIP file to the Transit partner dashboard, we request access permission via email.
  • Manual upload via Transit partner dashboard: Equally a final resort, use the manual upload option in the Transit partner dashboard. We don't recommend this choice, as information technology often leads to stale information for users.

Manual upload process

To manually upload your feed, follow these steps:

  1. Open your Transit partner dashboard.
  2. Next to your feed, clickStatic feed.
  3. Under Status and then Live & Update, click Upload files.
  4. Choose the file you want to manually upload.
  5. Click Process files .

How to edit feed options

In the Transit partner dashboard, yous can specify how and when your feed is transferred. After you set these options, Google can fetch your information. To edit your feed options, follow these steps:

  1. Admission the Transit partner dashboard.
  2. Click Static feed.
  3. Click Feed configuration.
  4. Complete the on-screen course.
  5. Click Save.

Ready up automatic feed retrieval

For best results, edit your settings and then that Google automatically retrieves your feed whenever your data changes:

  1. Access the Transit partner dashboard.
  2. Click Static feed.
  3. Click Feed configuration.
  4. Select Download content from my server or website.
  5. Nether Where is your content?, enter the complete path to the server where you store your feed.
  6. Select Single files.
  7. Select Transfer just new or updated file(s).
  8. Check Automatically retrieve data on a schedule.
  9. In the new grade that opens, specify a data retrieval schedule. Nosotros recommend retrieving the file weekly.
  10. Enter your username and password (if necessary) to access your Google Transit file.
  11. Click Save.

How to prepare upward immediate data fetch

Afterward y'all prepare up your fetch URL, you tin can start an immediate information fetch at any time. When yous practise this for the commencement time and receive confirmation that your feed was successfully candy, contact your Google team to allow them know that you lot're ready for a private preview.

To begin a data fetch, follow these steps:

  1. Open your Transit partner dashboard.
  2. Next to your feed, click Static feed.
  3. Nether Statusand thenLive & Update, click More.
  4. Select Transfer this feed now.

Learn more than almost best practices for maintaining your data and feed.

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