Launching archive.iRail.be
Some of you are harvesting our iRail API. That’s okay, you can do whatever you want with the API, but right now, we have reached a limit (300.000 requests per day) where we might want to give you another option that is cheaper for us: datadumps of all departures with their platform, delay, expected arrival time and so on, harvested each 5 to 7 minutes. We hope that this will give you more flexibility and will leave you with new ideas for new applications.
You can find the data dumps at “The iRail Archive”
Please start using this data and tell us what should change. We are still experimenting with giving you direct querying possibilities on top of this data (to be announced later), building iRail.be on top of this data (by our intern Nico, can be followed on github) and with more compact data structures which may allow us to archive this data cheaper.
The data model for the archives
You can find iRail RDF files which follow the iRail schema (see below) using the RPLOD and Transit ontologies. The 00-nmbs-latest.ttl is the last version which can be used for showing delay information to end-users. They will become queryable through this server soon. The other archives will need to be downloaded before using.
We would love to know how you use our data and how we can improve them. Send us a mail on our mailinglist or tweet us @iRail.
Pieter
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 said, the TEC has officially opened up its time schedules which you can find on the global data portal:
Our friends from openov have been so kind to create a transformation server from the BLTAC format towards GTFS in around 4 hours. Thank you!
Happy coding 🙂
New: GTFS dumps
Hi all,
Thanks to our Dutch friends from OpenOV, we now have a full open data set for the Belgian railway company in GTFS format.
http://datahub.io/dataset/timetables-for-the-belgian-railway-company
Please start using the data and provide us with feedback on the mailing list.
– Pieter
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:
SSL
As of May 13th, we support SSL on most of our (sub)domains. Some are enforced, while others are optional.
Here’s a list:
Only HTTP:
- api.iRail.be
Only HTTPS:
- iRail.be
- hello.iRail.be
Optional:
- data.iRail.be
PlugID and other subdomains will be migrated as well at a later stage.