[open-government] Who is hacking on transport data?

Wed Nov 23 21:58:25 UTC 2011

Dear Peter,

thank you so much for your mail. I have seen your submission to my Questionnaire. This is very helpful - indeed! TSDBExplorer looks very promising. And I would love to learn more form your experience. 

Would you be available for a short interview via phone or skype (preferably skype if possible) at any time soon? If so please contact me of list to arrange a date.

About hackdays and the like: I think this is really exciting stuff and I think the experience in the US and some countries like Sweden [1] has shown great success. Maybe OKF could team up and organise a Transport data Hackathon in 2012? Possibly attached to next years OKFest in Finland...

Anyone to take that idea on?

All the best
Daniel 

1. http://www.trafiklab.se/

On 19 November 2011 23:00, Peter Hicks <peter.hicks at poggs.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 11/11/11 21:33, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
>> 
>> If you are a transport data hacker, if you are crunching transport
>> data bites or having trubles getting the data you need to develop a
>> cool transport data application, please contact me or point me in the
>> direction of people doing so.
> 
> That'll be me then!  Thank you to Lucy Chambers for pointing me over here.
> 
> I'm working to free up rail data in the UK.  I have been reasonably
> successful on a small scale - Network Rail have given me feeds of data from
> their systems - timetables, signalling data, real-time movement data based
> off the signalling data, short-term planned alterations and speed
> restrictions.  Once those data sets are out there, I want to work on fares
> data.
> 
> I'm writing a Ruby on Rails application, TSDBExplorer, to process this data,
> as it's incredibly raw and requires a heck of a lot of work to interpret.
>  Source code is at https://github.com/poggs/tsdbexplorer if anyone wants to
> look.
> 
> Scaling this up is going to be a challenge, as NR use IBM WebSphere MQ as
> their enterprise messaging platform.  They want me to use an MQ Server if I
> want a full feed - licence costs are astronomical, so I'm taking a partial
> feed and using the free client instead.  I'm looking for creative ways
> around it.
> 
> I am more than happy to talk to anyone about the project, including taking
> part in hackdays, presenting, etc.
> 
> 
> Peter
> 
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