I think the sub urban transport real time data is very critical and should
be available to all. I remember during my time in London, the bus's real
time data was available and many innovative local travel planning apps were
there to ease your travel.
Lets try talking to IRCTC. If that doesn't
My thoughts are same as Srinivas'. Any number of things are possible, but I
am keen to know the actual story. The details matter.
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 9:11 PM, srinivas kodali iota.kod...@gmail.com
wrote:
You are looking it the wrong way. It is not a difficult thing for google.
But why give
i was just trying to explain how they got access. we are on the same side -
yes the data should be open for all or none and deal details are important.
any way we can ask irctc about it, if they are giving special treatment to
google. Can RTI work here ?
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On
You are looking it the wrong way. It is not a difficult thing for google.
But why give access only to google? why not researchers, why not startups
like cleartrip?
It should be open to all or open to none for whatever reasons the railways
authorities think. The public money which is powering
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/internet/indian-railways-schedules-now-on-google-maps/article7197832.ece
Does anyone have any more info about this arrangement and how they managed
to get access?
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Train Routes is a public data so making it available on map is not a
difficult thing for them.
also, they have done integration only for 8 cities so far -
Ahemdabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Pune.
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On 13 May 2015 at 20:27, Sriram
Contrary to the belief, train data cannot be used for commercial purposes
and it is not free.
http://enquiry.indianrail.gov.in/ntes/disclaimerDisplay.jsp
Even though it being public data, the railways is not making it publicly
accessible to everyone. I would love to have data on delays at each
Yes, i agree with the challenges mentioned by you. but that doesn't stop
google, they might have had signed some contract with irctc (purely my
speculation, this is not the first time irctc is integrating with 3rd
parties. Earlier it was Yebhi for ecommerce and now its amazon and also
paytm wallet
