[OSM-dev] HALP! transiki needs YOU!

[Stefan de Konink]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, SteveC wrote:

> Transiki is like OSM but stores magical transit data. It's approximately, nearly, at 0.1. It looks and feels very similar to OSM internally. It's written in rails, it's API looks similar and so on. You can think of it as a baby OSM.
>
> I'm a little overwhelmed and haven't had the time to review patches sent in, update the site etc.
>
> So, if you are a rails person or want to be and have a couple of hours please have a look at transiki. Anyone contributing will be sent an I Love You bean.

If it is like OSM then I think you are focussing on static data. Hence it 
would be as non-innovative as Google Transit. For a Dutch variant 
OpenOV.nl (Open Public Transport) we go beyond static data, we go for 
realtime positioning and sharing this information using open standards and 
open protocols.

This data is available as well for many governments, transit providers, 
etc.. And best of all, we are only a HUB to the data.


So I hope people realise that they can request the same data as Google 
does. And going realtime is where you want to be in 2011.


Stefan