[Open-transport] Trnsprt.ch

Tue Oct 23 21:59:53 UTC 2012

Hi Hannes,

I think we should agree on a common URI structure for journey planners,
departure/arrival boards and vehicle/line information. The people from
OpenTripPlanner were doing this already (Andrew, do you mind correcting
me please?).

One problem I have with your URI structure is that to and from are
included as part of the structure, while these are not different
resources (in a RESTful way).

A second problem I have with the URI structure is that your URIs are not
unique for a certain output or thing. When sending a URI to someone, you
will not be able to send him/her the information you've meant at a
certain moment in time.

At iRail we have been doing it in a slightly different way, including
the timestamp as well. For instance:

http://data.irail.be/NMBS/Departures/Gent-Sint-Pieters/2012/10/24/12/00

When going to this URI, it will redirect you to a URL which will check
the accept headers (.about) for the right formatter (xml, json, csv, ...).

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 10/23/2012 11:23 PM, Hannes Gassert wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Pieter Colpaert
> <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Do you have a good idea for an international domain name for our open
>> transport data portal? We will install a CKAN instance on this and
>> develop this further.
> 
> I'd just go for transport.datahub.io for the transport data hub?
> 
> Or trnsprt.net / trnsprt.org .. both are free, fun, short and geeky?
> 
> We just released http://trnsprt.ch (a simple tool to finally have
> nice, stable permalinks for Switzerland's train connections) but that
> should not impede you.
> 
> Kind regards from somewhere between Zurich and Berlin,
> Hannes
> 

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