Hi all, As some of you may know, GMTPE opened up their Bus Timetable data to the Open Data Manchester Group. This inspired the idea of "Bus Fair" - crowd-sourcing Bus fare data.
At the last "Bus Fair" meeting we agreed that before we can create the app, we need to get the ATCO-CIF data from GMPTE into a database so we can query and use the data for the application. And since other app developers would like to use this data, we decided there should be an API to this database of GMPTE data. This would mean that up-to-date Bus data is available to any app developer and will speed up the creation of apps using this data and get this incredibly useful information to more people across Greater Manchester. But we realised we will need help to build this. We're pretty sure we want to use Ruby to build this system, so we want you to help us build a system which parses the GMTPE ATCO-CIF data (which is released weekly, and sometime more often than that) into a MySQL database (which will be hosted in the cloud) with an secure API to query the data. If you think you can help and want to boost democratic access to Bus information, please come along to as many of the hack sessions below as you can which we've arranged with support of FlyThe.Coop: Monday 6th Sept, 2-5pm, FlyThe.Coop Wednesday 8th Sept, 6-8pm, FlyThe.Coop Wednesday 15th Sept, 9am-1pm, FlyThe.Coop Saturday 18th Sept (Software Freedom Day), 11am - 4pm, FlyThe.Coop Monday 20th Sept, 6-8pm, FlyThe.Coop Saturday 25th Sept, 11am-4pm, FlyThe.Coop FlyThe.Coop is on the first floor of the MadLab building, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester, M4 1HN. This will be a great Open Source project and will contribute to the opening of Bus Data in Greater Manchester by making it even more accessible. It will also be useful to other regions when their ATCO-CIF Bus data is released. Ta, Ben -- *www.bobop.co.uk* 07811 197374 web design, development, consultancy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en.
