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After noticing a comment on the site, I checked the "Disclaimer" pages on the 2 official sites (Both don't allow storing this data in any form). However, the 3r
by rasagy 15y ago
After noticing a comment on the site, I checked the "Disclaimer" pages on the 2 official sites (Both don't allow storing this data in any form). However, the 3rd source http://indiarailinfo.com/ http://indiarailinfo.com/ is not affiliated to the gov.
Are there any NGO/organizations that could push for such data to be made public in India? I'll try getting in touch with CIS (http://www.cis-india.org/ http://www.cis-india.org/).
Disclaimers on: http://www.indianrail.gov.in/disclaimer.html http://www.indianrail.gov.in/disclaimer.html & http://trainenquiry.com/StaticContent/disclaim.aspx http://trainenquiry.com/StaticContent/disclaim.aspx
- asto 15y agoIt's probably to prevent link scrapers from putting further load on the already poorly performing site! If they allow people to freely use the data, there's a good chance that a lot of sites mushroom to provide railways data
- rasagy 15y agoThat holds true for all open data, right? I still find others (like NY MTA: http://mta.info/developers/ http://mta.info/developers/) providing open data (in GTFS). Agreed about the load part though.
- sramana9 15y agoThanks for informing me that it is not legal to scrape http://www.indianrail.gov.in http://www.indianrail.gov.in. I am rewriting the code to scrape only http://indiarailinfo.com http://indiarailinfo.com, which does not explicitly forbid scraping. Is it legal to scrape such a site (without overloading it)? Is it legal to share that code?
- rasagy 15y agoI'm not sure if there are any general rules/guidelines in India for this. However, IndianRailInfo doesn't have any Copyright/Disclaimer mentioned on their homepage. So I see no reason why it should be a problem. Re:Source, till it's not used to scrape Copyright/private data, it shouldn't be a problem. Mention this clause in the disclaimer/license. Will you be putting it on GitHub?