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Transport data roaming
When I’m writing code I’m quite regularly distracted by what-ifs… For instance: what if I’m on a train towards Spain and I boarded in Belgium. As I have a smartphone with an application installed (let’s call it BeTrains for iRail) which gives me real-time information on my trajectory, I don’t want BeTrains to be useless once I cross the border. BeTrains should automatically switch to the trainsystem of that country.
To achieve this the right way we need some other structures. Open data is one thing, but providing data in an open standard is even more important. Certainly for this particular case that I describe even better if you read the full story on my blog at http://bonsansnom.wordpress.com
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