[OSM-talk] Collecting public transportation time tables

[Ben Laenen]

On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Elena of Valhalla wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Peter Miller 
<peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
> > I wound be very interested to see the first time that a transport
> > authority took a person to court for promoting their services but
> > there may be a first time!
>
> actually, I seem to remember reading on either slashdot or
> theregister that it has happened in the last month or so, with a
> transport company sueing some online timetable service, but I can't
> remember the details

There was a bit going on with this iphone app http://trein.naquah.net/ 
which can be used to look up timetables for the Dutch railway services. 
It didn't go to court, but the Dutch railways wanted it removed from 
the iphone app store (which hasn't happened AFAIK).

More information (in Dutch, sorry):
http://blog.iusmentis.com/2008/10/11/mag-trein-opzoeken-hoe-laat-de-trein-vertrekt
http://webwereld.nl/articles/53098/ns-wil-verwijdering-iphone-app.html

I guess it's up to lawyers to decide whether database copyright applies 
here or not.

Ben