[Open-transport] Swiss Transport Data: Next Steps / Opendata.ch Transport Working Group Kickoff

Hannes Gassert hannes at gassert.ch
Fri Apr 25 10:06:53 UTC 2014


Thomas,

Many thanks for your message. Do you plan to release this code under an
open license, or are you developing it in the open already?
To ask bluntly: if yes: when, if not, why not? :)

Sending kind regards,

Hannes




On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Thomas <thomaskoch at gmail.com> wrote:

> FYI,
>
> Stefan de Konink and myself are currently working on a SQL importer of the
> HAFAS raw data and subsequently a set of queries to dump the data as GTFS.
> We've finished the importer up to the point where it imports all the
> tables but the table fplan.
> fplan currently fails on the fact that our idea of the primary key's on
> that datastrucure were wrong.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Thomas Koch
> To whom it may concern
>
> This week, the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) released a large volume of
> schedule data at http://www.fahrplanfelder.ch/fahrplandaten. The feedback
> was mixed, from a happy "Yeah! Finally! Congratulations!" to lukewarm hints
> at discrepancies with opendefinition.org - but in any case this move
> creates new potentials, new questions, and a new need to coordinate. How
> could the community work together to create open tools to work with this
> data, to transform it into other formats, to make it used and useful? Who's
> in, with what goals?
>
> Let's find out, and let's make a plan - so let's meet. If interested,
> please fill in https://doodle.com/9ikwneuq4b7v5is9 - most practical place
> is Zurich, but please let me know if you'd like to participate from abroad,
> as this probably will turn out to be an international Hafas challenge. The
> meeting will also serve as the kickoff of Opendata.ch's Transport Working
> Group, if so decided by the participants.
>
> Sending kind regards,
> Hannes Gassert
>
>
>
> PS: http://opendata.ch/sports-hackdays
>
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