[iRail] AC Transit API available

[flo]

Yes their API looks messy!
Personally I like the clean design of the irail much more but don't
know Linda Morris - just forwarded her post on the transit-developers
list.

"Generally" I've the feeling that train/transit companies are very
reluctant to provide live APIs or at least limit the access to them.
But more and more agencies just provide the whole data set for
download http://www.gtfs-data-exchange.com/agencies because the
want(!) to appear in gmaps and don't want to host api servers
themselves. google did rename the "g" in gtfs. it now stands for
"general". so maybe this already becomes kind of a standard exchange
format. iirc opentripplaner.org (graphserver) can be feeded gtfs data
and compute connections to answer requests. May be this is something
to think about adding iRail API to some (free) gtfs-compatible
timetable-routing-engines..?

flo


----- Original Message ----
> From: Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at gmail.com>
> To: iRail mailing list <irail at list.irail.be>
> Sent: Wed, August 18, 2010 2:51:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [iRail] AC Transit API available
>
> That's really good news! Their API is however very messy and could use
> standardisation. Can you inform Linda Morris about our project? Maybe
> they're willing to cooperate.
>
> In September I will write&release the PHP code which will work as an
> extensible platform. Anyone will be able to set up an API which works as
> an "adapter". This means the output will be there, you only have to put
> the right data in the right form into the script.
>
> Pieter
>
> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 10:21 +0200, flo wrote:
> > ----- Forwarded Message ----
> > > From: Linda Morris <lindamorris.london at gmail.com>
> > > To: Transit Developers <transit-developers at googlegroups.com>
> > > Sent: Tue, August 17, 2010 8:44:50 PM
> > > Subject: [transit-developers] AC Transit XML Feed for NextBus transit data now available
> > >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I'm pleased to let you all know that we now have our NextBus XML data
> > > feed available for third party developers.
> > >
> > > http://www.actransit.org/riderinfo/nextbus_XML_data.wu
> > >
> > > Please send any questions and comments to next-bus at actransit.org.
> > >
> > > Keep up the good work!
> > >
> > > Linda
> > >
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