GTFS is a format specialized for public transit routes & schedules, like bus lines, subways, commuter rail, and other types of transit that covers the same route every day. As such, it's it's a format for both time and geospatial attributes. Placemark currently handles the geospatial part of GTFS - specifically, the shapes.txt file.
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