Agency icons

[mpaine-act]

Would the GTFS standard please consider support for agency icon URLs with the agency.txt file? It is useful when multi-modal data situations (e.g. trip planners) mix routes between different agencies, as agency's route colors are not always good enough to differentiate for accessibility purposes.

[skinkie]

I think we had this discussion before. I guess the main problem is that a single icon is not what we want, so an icon pack could be an idea.

[barbeau]

See #76 for previous discussion

[stevenmwhite]

Should we consolidate discussion here or over there?

I think generally there's an agency "logo" that represents the agency, but it may not be the icon/symbol that represents their services. One agency may have multiple services with distinct brands (circulators vs commuter routes, or rapid vs local) so perhaps the service icons should be defined at the route level? Both are important, and the route-level icons could be treated as an override to the agency-level one?

(I realized I asked where to discuss and then went ahead and wrote my comments here anyway... sorry)

[Cristhian-HA]

I will suggest to move this conversation to #76 and close this one as there are already a bunch of suggestions and conversations on going regarding this subject.

[mpaine-act]

Should we consolidate discussion here or over there?

I think generally there's an agency "logo" that represents the agency, but it may not be the icon/symbol that represents their services. One agency may have multiple services with distinct brands (circulators vs commuter routes, or rapid vs local) so perhaps the service icons should be defined at the route level? Both are important, and the route-level icons could be treated as an override to the agency-level one?

(I realized I asked where to discuss and then went ahead and wrote my comments here anyway... sorry)

This is what I had in mind. At minimum, an agency icon can be used when route-level or stop-level icons are not defined.