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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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Always have a seat in the train

With our API’s query logs, with a ground truth by train specialists in Belgium, and with user feedback, we can show you how busy your train is. The only thing lacking to realizing this feature that the Dutch already have for … Continue reading

21. April 2016 by Pieter Colpaert
Categories: iRail, NMBS, open data | Leave a comment

The start of a new era

Time flies! But we have great news: It's official: @NMBS/@SNCB obliged to go #opendata by law. @openov #opentransport https://t.co/CS9bdoRaoM — iRail (@iRail) April 13, 2016 We can now officially close the era where iRail has been an advocacy group for Open Transport … Continue reading

14. April 2016 by Pieter Colpaert
Categories: NMBS, open data | Leave a comment

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