FYI a fairly exhaustive set of Wellington's transport data (bus, train, ferry
timetables, routes, etc) is available at
http://www.metlink.org.nz/google-transit-feed/
This is basically a bunch of fairly easy to parse text files in a zip archive.
Not an API, but better than scraping HTML!
This is the dataset that is given to Google to power the Google Transit system
at maps.google.com. I hope to see in 2010 these datasets progress along the
continuum towards open govt data principles; I understand the council is keen
but there are squeakier wheels elsewhere to focus on. For instance, Wellington
will have real time knowledge of vehicle locations soon.
Cheers,
Sig
(PS: SilverStripe rebuilt the metlink website this month, so happy to pass on
feedback, suggestions, et cetera.)
Well done Wellington, and great to see the proposed direction.
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Cheers
Jim
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:48 PM, <email obscured>> wrote:
> FYI a fairly exhaustive set of Wellington's transport data (bus, train,
> ferry timetables, routes, etc) is available at
> http://www.metlink.org.nz/google-transit-feed/
>
> This is basically a bunch of fairly easy to parse text files in a zip
> archive. Not an API, but better than scraping HTML!
>
> This is the dataset that is given to Google to power the Google Transit
> system at maps.google.com. I hope to see in 2010 these datasets progress
> along the continuum towards open govt data principles; I understand the
> council is keen but there are squeakier wheels elsewhere to focus on. For
> instance, Wellington will have real time knowledge of vehicle locations
> soon.
>
> Cheers,
> Sig
>
> (PS: SilverStripe rebuilt the metlink website this month, so happy to pass
> on feedback, suggestions, et cetera.)
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hi
On the subject of transport and Google, Google Maps for Bangkok now
has color coding for the live traffic conditions, green for go (ie
traffic is moving), orange for iffy and red for sloth. I can vouch
from personal experience that they might as well set up a cron job to
turn the roads red at 1700...
Wow - I've been off the Open Data gig for a while with the paying gig :-(
I submitted an OIA request to get the feed url for Wellington ages ago and the
reply got stuck in my spam folder. Good to see it is finally live.
ROB: Do you have a contact at ARTA to get the Auckland url?
And a response from Auckland:
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Thank you for your enquiry.
We are currently working on making the Google Transit Feed (GTF) data available
via the MAXX website. This will require terms and conditions to be confirmed by
users.
You will note a 'refresh' in the MAXX website in the next few weeks and this
data will be available shortly afterwards. Please visit the MAXX website around
mid-February to find it, otherwise feel free to enquire through this email
address.
Best regards
On behalf of the Auckland Regional Transport Authority
Alfonso Flores
CUSTOMER FEEDBACK COORDINATOR
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It will be interesting to see what the T&C's are.
