Category Archives for open data
Open data
Mapping public transport in Belgium
Open Street Map is a crowd sourced map which can be reused by anyone. You can for example look up the Brussels North station, and see how all bus stops, platforms, railway tracks are shown with a very good precision. … Continue reading
Opening up transit data
In this TEDxGhent talk, Pieter Colpaert explains his PhD in 3 minutes. It’s at the same time 3 simple reasons why it’s better to open up transit information, rather than each party keeping it to themselves: We don’t want a … Continue reading
TEC opens up data
It’s a great day for Open Data in Belgium. After all legal hassle with NMBS/SNCB, we can finally have a peace of mind as the Walloon bus company declares they don’t understand why inflatable slide it’s so difficult. This being … Continue reading
TEC to open up their data
Great news! TEC, the Walloon bus company, announced during Data Days (Open Belgium) that they are going to open up their data: http://datanews.knack.be/ict/nieuws/vervoersmaatschappij-tec-kiest-voor-open-data/article-4000534642895.htm
Fork the open transport data manifest
Transportation is a major contemporary issue, which has a direct impact on economic strength, environmental sustainability, and social equity. Accordingly, transport data – largely produced and/or gathered by public sector organisations or semi-private entities, quite often decentrally – represents one … Continue reading