realtime could be provided by such a thing as GEORSS http://www.georss.org/Main_Page
where you show either, where the things SHOULD BE, or another feed with where they have last been reported to have been. mike On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Stefan de Konink <ste...@konink.de> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
