[Open-transport] Open Transport Handbook - Request for Participation

[Pieter Colpaert]

Hi Stephane,

this sounds great! Feel free to fit in your stories in the document. At
this moment the handbook is too much focused on trains and buses. Your view
seems like a missing link.

Kind regards,

Pieter
Op 26-sep.-2012 18:13 schreef "Stéphane Guidoin" <stephane at opennorth.ca>
het volgende:

> Hi Pieter,
>
> I could bring some elements about traffic data since I'm working on this
> currently but I don't really see how to plug it in the current organization
> of the domain.
>
> I see 2 possibles approach (non-exclusive)
>
>    - Standardization vs non-standardization: Transit is a good example
>    where light-weight standardization help the data to be used very
>    efficiently once opened. On the other hand, in the traffic world, we have
>    very complex, frequently unused standard. so even when the data is
>    published/open, it's a pain to use it. There's probably something around
>    that.
>    - Ownership of the data: in the traffic world, a lot of information is
>    coming from the private sector. So we could do a short investigation about
>    how some gov are managing this and raising the need for govs to have a
>    better control of this data.
>
> Besides that, it's possible to show some existing initiatives (for example
> San Francisco and NYC do have some traffic APIs but we are far from the
> successes of GTFS for example.
>
> (Disclaimer: I'm working on a project named Open511 that aims at
> standardizing traffic data... it's non profit)
>
> Steph
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> We are finalising the general outline of the Open Transport Handbook by
>> Wednesday. If you would like another chapter to be included, please add
>> the name of it (you can use the comment section if you don't have
>> permission to change the document yet). We will freeze the outline on
>> Wednesday.
>>
>> Next steps:
>>  * Lock a chapter: add your name to a certain chapter and tell everyone
>> you're going to write the chapter by typing something like this:
>>
>> //Pieter Colpaert is writing this from his perspective as ...
>>
>>  * We wanted to get a first version of all chapters by the first of
>> October. We understand that this is quite early, but let's try to pull
>> this off anyhow.
>>
>>  * Starting the first of October we will give an editorial team 1 week
>> to produce feedback.
>>
>>  * Starting the 7th of October, the feedback can be processed.
>>
>>  * Miet is going to do the graphic design starting the 14th of October.
>> If you'd like pictures to be included, add them to the doc, but don't
>> forget to add a link to the original picture, and don't forget to
>> attribute if it's a CC BY licensed picture.
>>
>>  * We want a final version to be ready by the first of November.
>>
>> The link:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j0T72DyPHZ--Tunw0holehidgCoGP7ujHsOFHeFe1YA/edit
>>
>> Start writing on this today, you won't regret writing history.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Pieter
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