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I'm torn. While I certainly don't like a 'gagging clause', I can only look with envy at the data you UK guys can get your hand at. So, maybe it's not perfect,

I'm torn. While I certainly don't like a 'gagging clause', I can only look with envy at the data you UK guys can get your hand at. So, maybe it's not perfect, maybe not good enough, but being able to get at that much data in the first place _is_ already quite remarkable imo. I'd love to see a German equivalent, gagging clause or not.

andrewem 14y ago
What's the transit data availability situation in Germany? In the US, various public transit agencies do varyingly good jobs of this. Boston's MBTA has lots of data available, both geo, schedule and real-time, and hasn't made any complaints or tried to stop a site which is at least somewhat critical (http://howfuckedisthet.com http://howfuckedisthet.com), and have been stupendously helpful to me as a developer. New York's MTA built their own system using an open transit API for bus real-time data (http://bustime.mta.info/wiki/Developers/Index http://bustime.mta.info/wiki/Developers/Index). Certain of my interactions with them have been less than efficient, let's say.
- andrewem 14y ago
  I just noticed this page on Transport for London's API docs [1], the summary of which is "Use our data, but don't pretend to be us". +1 for straightforward guidelines like this. For instance, "Please don't... Use our brands - the roundel, unless it's part of a map interface" , but "Please do... Use the words 'London Underground', 'Tube' and 'London bus'". [1] http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/syndication/17102.aspx http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/syndication/17102....