[Open-transport] Open Data Public Transport List?

Thu Jul 18 12:47:02 UTC 2013

Hi Rufus and Patrick,

I'm afraid that the created google docs will more work counterproductive:
 * Agencies should not focus on an API. They should focus on having their
raw data published under an open license.
 * It's the use case developers that should design the API as an engine for
their application state, and thus not the agencies themselves.

I do however see the need for a list of meta-data about these data
endpoints, whether they're raw data or APIs. Can't we all start
contributing on http://transport.datahub.io?

Kind regards,

Pieter

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Jul 2013, Patrick Wolowicz wrote:
>
>  Why would such a list be important?
>>
>> 1) It would allow the open data community to see which APIs are most
>> used. If someone is considering writing a converter between one API to
>> another, the developer could see which regions would be covered and which
>> APIs the developer can test against.
>>
>
> Could you please elaborate why interopability between API's from different
> regions is important. You seem te advocate that open data public transport
> is something like building a view on an existing system. While what most
> transit developers require is the freedom to have access to the raw data
> behind it.
>
> So are you advocating for open data api's were you can fetch raw data
> from, such as Networkrail, or more like a documented API to a route planner
> like Dutch Rail provides?
>
> Stefan
>
>
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