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Dataspotting - Ottawa Transit Data Day

Ottawa OC Transpo static (GTFS) and real-time (API) data for the bus system is open for your use.

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On June 2, 2012 OC Transpo’s staff will also be open for your questions and ideas.

Want access to Presto card data? Have a great concept for visualising OC Transpo’s giant trove of daily bus location data? (Complete bus location records are downloaded and stored at the end of every day… #bigdata anyone?) Have an idea for LRT open data? Want to make a cool digital bus arrival sign and gain acclaim? Have an idea for something amazing that the API doesn’t quite do yet?

Then register at http://transit-data-yow.eventbrite.com/ and come collaborate with us at City Hall.

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La Ville de Montréal - Le mouvement d’ouverture des données d’administrations publiques vise à promouvoir le savoir et l’innovation grâce au partage d’informations. En ouvrant ses données, une organisation publique permet qu’elles soient réutilisées à différentes fins.

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We saw an opportunity to take an experiment done in Philadelphia and apply it in Denver ahead of our summer hackathon to generate a test case for simple engagement methods and generate a large amount of data. In partnership with OpenPlans, we are proud to announce Denver’s Beautiful Streets.

Introducing Denver’s Beautiful Streets

Congrats to PlaceMatters and OpenPlans on a successful and promising redeployment of Beautiful Streets, a civic app aimed at generating crowdsourced data about the urban environment. 

According to the organizers, there are some very easy instructions to set it up in Heroku, which should help any others interested in redeploying the app. Any takers?

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Rewired State had The Boat that Hacked TV (and here’s a video of a great hack from that event)

Coming up:

May 23, 2012 - « L’Autobus des créateurs » - Montreal

“L’Autobus des créateurs est un espace créatif mobile qui fera le tour de l’île de Montréal le 23 mai 2012. Lors de ce trajet d’une demi-journée, des développeurs intéressés à trouver des solutions créatives aux problèmes de transport à Montréal embarqueront dans l’Autobus des créateurs avec pour mission de proposer un projet web ou mobile. Une fois arrivés à destination, les participants devront être en mesure de commencer la mise en œuvre du projet.”
Rough translation: the hackerbus (or maybe makerbus) is a mobile creative space that will go around the Island of Montreal May 23, 2012. During the half-day trip, developers interested in finding creative solutions to transportation problems in Montreal will travel on the hackerbus, with their mission being to propose a web or mobile project. Once they have arrived at their destination, the participants should be ready to start working on the project.


June 16, 2012 - The Hackatrain - Chicago

Web developers and designers will solve a transportation problem building software while riding the Chicago Brown Line. On Saturday the teams will meet in the Hackacave, a strategic downtown location and wait turns to ride and hack in the train. The Hackatrain will ride most of the day and teams are expected to complete their apps while riding the train.

Hmm, what should we do for Ottawa Transit Data Day? Double-decker databus, anyone?