Hi everyone, A quick reminder that the first GMPTE Hack Session to build a database and API from their ATCO-CIF data is this afternoon from 2-5pm at FlyThe.Coop.
Please come along if you can to help shape this project, plan a roadmap, work out the best way to build this, and to meet other people interested in getting this Bus data more accessible. Hope to see you here, Ben On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Ben Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- *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.
