On 23 July 2012 14:19, Chris Samuel wrote:
> People do reverse engineer the timetables into apps and screenscraping
> websites (such as "Train Tracker") and/or use unpublished APIs ("Tram
> Hunter"), but there's no official API to find out how to get from A to B
> or to find out about delays.
The
FYI, a couple of years back, I wrote a train timetable scraper for the
Melbourne train/tram/bus timetables website. The source code is available
here:
https://code.launchpad.net/~mgiuca/melbournetransit/trunk
It is a Google App Engine app, and I only ever opened it up to invitation
only. I've let
Of course, Apple is once again held up as the beacon of good licensing --
not because they do good licensing but because they make it easy:
Mr Cummins suggested publishers should set up "an iTunes store equivalent
> for textbooks - one central repository [where] schools pay a fee for basic
> use a
On 22/07/12 10:52, Brian May wrote:
> Open access to public transport information.
>
> Vancouver can do it, why can't we?
For some context on this:
http://www.ptua.org.au/2011/08/23/timetable-data/
# “Adding Melbourne’s timetables to Google Transit will be very
# welcome, but otherwise, the go
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/schools-pay-millions-for-material-free-on-net-20120722-22ibg.html
Not sure if they are talking about any site on the Internet, or maybe
a set of sites covered under the license.
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Brian May
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On 22/07/12 10:49, Geoff Shaw wrote:
> In Martin's email on my mail reader, there was a line break that
> truncated the last 3 characters from the URL link. Is that the
> problem?
No (not for me at least) as I recall getting an error on the form.
Ho
