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January updates

We are only two weeks in 2016 and it seems like NMBS/SNCB is keeping its promise as a presentation announced they now have an internal innovation project on Open Data. But more inflables interestingly for us, the presentation, geving yesterday at … Continue reading

13. January 2016 by Pieter Colpaert
Categories: NMBS, open data | Leave a comment

TrainTracker

This is a guest blog post by Pepijn Mores, a student at HELMo Saint-Marie. In this blog post he shows how easy it is to create an app to fulfill his own transportation needs, which we thought is very interesting: it … Continue reading

04. January 2016 by Pieter Colpaert
Categories: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

NMBS/SNCB announces data sharing

Today, the Belgian railway company announces a data sharing program for third party developers. They will start sharing the planned schedules (“static data”). We are cautiously excited that this is the first step towards a real open data policy. You can request … Continue reading

22. September 2015 by Pieter Colpaert
Categories: iRail, News & events, NMBS, open data, Politics | 1 comment

August updates

Hi all, It’s been since April that we haven’t done another community update. Back then, we announced our migration to new servers, we’ve announced that we would have 2 students at open Summer of code 2015 and that we would … Continue reading

11. August 2015 by Pieter Colpaert
Categories: News & events, open data, Summer of code | 1 comment

We’ve got 2 students at open Summer of code 2015

In the April update we’ve shouted out for people who wanted to help funding students to work on iRail datasets during open Summer of code 2015. And guess what? We’ve had a response! Thanks to #iSoc12 alumna Miet Claes and … Continue reading

11. June 2015 by Pieter Colpaert
Categories: Summer of code | Leave a comment

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