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Talk about Old Skool British behaviour. I grew up with this mentality and have been merrily waving it goodbye for the past couple of decades. As well as the su
by auxbuss 16y ago
Talk about Old Skool British behaviour. I grew up with this mentality and have been merrily waving it goodbye for the past couple of decades.
As well as the suggestions in the article's comments, I'd drop a tweet to Glynn Moody (@glynmoody) who will certainly take this on. Also worthwhile tweeting would be Tim Danton (@timdanton) editor of PCPro (for USians, that's the UK's main commercial tech mag), and also Tom Watson (@tom_watson) our "Uber Geek in Parliament".
No harm in getting a petition going at Number10 and maybe asking the Open Rights Group (@OpenRightsGroup) to get involved and start a campaign of lobbying MPs.
In addition, open data is huge in the Euro Parliament, so write to all you MEPs via http://www.writetothem.com/ http://www.writetothem.com/
Don't ignore the latter, my experience with my MEPs has been excellent. One even sends a weekly newsletter giving his diary, what occurred, and what he's up to next. Once you engage with these folk, things really can start happening.
We need to fight to keep public data available, and there's loads of support in the places where it matters, so just start making some noise and you'll soon have your app back working, and hopefully you additional app too.
- bsk 16y agoProblem is it's an association of private companies. Maybe a better way is to pressure the government Network Rail to offer a similar service, as they also have the information.