Open Transport
OKFN Meetup March 2014
Pieter Colpaert
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How far do you live from work?
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Minutes or kilometers?
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Mapnificent
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http://epsiplatform.eu/transport
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Open Trip Planner
A lot of software is
there already!
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Open Transport Data
… duuh
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If only we knew...
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Work together
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4 focuses for 2014
OKFN Open Transport WG
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1. A data portal
Collect high quality datasets at http:
//datahub.io/organization/opentransport
Maintain the meta-data
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2. A top-level ontology
stop_area
stop_point
trip? connection?
walk_time
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3. Mappings
SIRI
NETEX
BISON
Transmodel
TRIDENT
TCIP
Top level ontology
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4. A referential ID database
URIs to point towards
stop_areas and stop_points
something like... http://stations.
io/id/{ID}
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Where to start?
Join the mailinglist at OKFN:
http://transport.okfn.org
Contribute to our projects:
http://github.com/OpenTransport
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But more interestingly
Connect with our WG
Let’s work together across
local, European and global
projects on these 4 focus points
…
Everyone needs them