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

26. October 2016 by Pieter Colpaert
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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

10. October 2016 by Pieter Colpaert
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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

28. July 2016 by Pieter Colpaert
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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

21. July 2016 by Pieter Colpaert
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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

19. July 2016 by Pieter Colpaert
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