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NRE have a stranglehold on the only comprehensive source of real-time passenger train data in the UK. They developed it to power their own website but have rec
by andreyf 14y ago
NRE have a stranglehold on the only comprehensive source of real-time passenger train data in the UK. They developed it to power their own website but have recognised in it a way to exert power over anyone who wants to use real time train data and to stifle criticism.
What is referred to by "their website"? Why not just scrape the data?
- blocking_io 14y agoPresumably National Rail Enquiries. How can you base a commercial application on scraping a website? That is not a sensible business model.
- warrenmiller 14y agoGoogle do