Yearly Archives for 2016
Call for Speakers: Open Belgium 2017 conference
Open Knowledge Belgium has a yearly conference called Open Belgium! In 2017, the Open Belgium conference will be held in Brussels on March the 6th. Today, the call for speakers was announced! As this is a yearly tradition for iRail … Continue reading
The first month of collecting occupancy scores
It has now been one month since we soft-launched the iRail occupancy features of Spitsgids. From then on, it would be possible for commuters, to indicate how busy their train would be. Of course, we would not be iRail if … Continue reading
Soft-launching occupancy scores in the API
Hi all, In May 2016, TreinTramBus and iRail successfully finished a crowd-funding campaign called Spitsgids, in which we were able to raise €4140 from 121 believers. We promised to hire students during open Summer of code 2016 and to open … Continue reading
Small enhancements of the API documentation
We have updated the API docs slightly over here: https://hello.irail.be/api/1-0/ Change log: Vehicle information now contains much more data about arrivals, delays, cancelations, and so forth. It’s kept backward compatible, but the new properties should allow you to make richer … Continue reading
Visualizing our queries
On top of the iRail API, many requests happen. Even if we give concrete numbers, it remains difficult to understand how many requests we actually get. Serkan Yildiz, one of the open Summer of code students, created the open iRail … Continue reading