Board packet · transit data quality · checked 2026-08-01

Pensacola Bay City Ferry

Grade A · 96.5 / 100

Unchanged since 2026-07-31.

What this grade measures

The quality of the schedule data this agency publishes for trip-planning apps: whether riders using Google Maps, Apple Maps, or Transit see current, correct, and complete information. It measures the data feed, not service quality or operations.

Progress this period

No newly cleared items this period. The score and trend above reflect where the feed stands today.

What needs attention next

Three improvements, in priority order, each sized so the board can see what it is approving:

Check the flagged terminals' coordinates and the route shape in your scheduling software; re-snap whichever is misplaced.
Some terminals sit far from the route line they belong to. Trip planners may draw the vessel route through the wrong path or point riders to the wrong terminal.
Estimated effort: A few minutes per flagged terminal.
Turn on 'remove unused shapes' (or the like) in your export tool.
The feed contains route shapes no trip uses. Harmless to riders, but it bloats the feed and suggests stale export data.
Estimated effort: One setting.

Finding handoff

Move one finding to a recheck

Select one finding. Copy the request, make the change in the feed-producing tool, then compare the next complete run.

Feed evidence: Some terminals sit far from the route line they belong to.
Next action: Check the flagged terminals' coordinates and the route shape in your scheduling software; re-snap whichever is misplaced.
Recheck: Publish the changed feed at the same URL. On the next complete, comparable scorecard run, confirm that this finding is no longer reported.

Copy handoff text

Agency: Pensacola Bay City Ferry
Finding: stop_too_far_from_shape
Feed evidence: Some terminals sit far from the route line they belong to.
Why it matters: Trip planners may draw the vessel route through the wrong path or point riders to the wrong terminal.
Requested change: Check the flagged terminals' coordinates and the route shape in your scheduling software; re-snap whichever is misplaced.
Recheck: Publish the changed feed at the same URL. On the next complete, comparable scorecard run, confirm that this finding is no longer reported.
Evidence: https://gtfsscorecard.org/agency/gulf-islands-national-seashore/?finding=stop_too_far_from_shape#finding-handoff

Produced by the GTFS Scorecard, an open-source data quality tool. A data-quality read to support the board conversation, not an official compliance determination. Live scorecard: https://gtfsscorecard.org/agency/gulf-islands-national-seashore/. Rubric v1.3, validator 8.0.1.