 My goal part you can follow me on Twitter or on identica at peter culpart So first of all, I'm very happy to speak for an international audience because Yeah, this thing is quite international because if I would go to Italy. I don't know a lot of about Italy. I I would have to find my way through the public transportation system. And so if I would Want to take the train and I wouldn't know where to find the right information because probably in the stations everything will be in Italian and I don't know I don't know any Italian. Sorry So I will probably look on my smartphone, but which websites should I check? What is the company that that makes takes care of this information? I don't have a clue So what do I do? I take my smartphone I go to my normal application and I try to find the right information But there is no such thing in Europe at this moment Which gives all my information in one place and there is no such thing as an application that combines all the different all the different Companies in one app So who are we? We are just a bunch of people People with commercial interests or people who just want to do this for fun and just like a normal open source community Who wants to take care of this problem? And at this moment we take care of of the nmbs, which is the Belgian rail company So we take care of public trans transport data for developers Yeah, so anyone can use our data which which is on a server on by API So we had some problems recently And September we were we were doing all this this stuff and and in July, sorry Or in June in we got this letter which said we had to stop immediately with what we were doing Yeah with kind of Arguments that that we didn't agree with so there was an attorney even van den branden I don't think maybe he is here Over there. Thanks even For sending a letter back. Yeah And yeah, thanks to him. We're still up and running and of course, yeah, thanks to van song van quickenborne which is a Minister here in our in our country Who who sent the tweets to to put Irel back online and we got a huge lice dot effect and all that stuff So we're still up and running and this is yeah This simple interface is what we do at this moment and what we have done for for two years long And this is just a screenshot of Irel dot be which you can find all the schedules for For the trains in Belgium only the trains at this moment, but we are planning on making this bigger So this website connects through an API, which is this nice XML interface And and yeah, you can see various data, which we don't show all and in the in the web interface But of course there are other interfaces such as or apps and such as widgets or you can implement something yourself or you can use this on your website to show how How your office deals with transport data and stuff. So, yeah, I won't feed the trolls We also have chasing so for people who don't like XML And we have four requests in our API. That's stations That's all the the list of all the stops of a certain public transport company for For trains is obviously all the stations for buses. This is all the bus stops and so on We also have connections. This is to plan a trip from to a certain place We have a live board live boards are stuff that you will see when you enter a station or a bus stop You will see all the the time schedules for the next few trains that will leave or depart Leave or arrive And we have information about one specific vehicle So you don't have to implement this API yourself You can of course we have written a lot of codes or self already you can reuse that all the code We write is under a GPL version 3 license or no, maybe some apps are under MIT But that's the altered authors choice, of course For the lazy people who didn't go to project dot IRL dot be yet scan it You got it, right? So for the people who want to do a project with this data, we started an NPO that's a non-profit organization And you can reach us in several ways. You can use IRC for the die-hard hackers Who also who always use IRC such as I and you probably There is a mailing list. There is a track. So if you have a problem file a bug report We also have Twitter and identica. So Follow us on Twitter And post a lot of messages in the identical group If you have bigger projects Or ideas, please come to us afterwards. We will answer this We will like to answer this and work together Maybe if you are a public transport company, please come to us. We would we would very like We would like to work together So what what is in the future? We will do a new specification So we will still keep these four functions, but we will add functionality Such as such as more request parameters. We will use point of interest. That's a POI Such as I want to visit I was want to visit Colosseum at Rome. How do I get there from my home? There are more types of transport that we will That we will do so so Yeah, and of course more countries. So if you have a country probably you have a country Please Please if you want this come to us and and we will work together If you're not a public transport company yourself, we can we can do a scraping thing or yeah There are various ways to to solve this problem So with a non-profit organization, we will do our first general meetup the fourth in of February Yeah, we love public transport At to that and taxi in Brussels. So if you would like to come you're welcome Yeah, and in that specification we will We will also take into account the things we learned from API version 1.0 Which are quite a lot of tickets which are still open if you're such a person who entered the bug report for that We will solve that in in 2.0 So examples we have Btrans.com Yeah I will not show any screenshots of the applications because some people might be offended if I show an iPhone application or if I show Nokia only screenshot. So please for your system just Download it for Android and iPhone. It's in the eye in the App Store. So you can Install it very quickly and for Nokia for the main MIMO platform. We have it in nightly So go to that URL and download it, please for Windows Phone 7. Yes, we support that as well Samsung Bahra and BlackBerry Playbook The app Btrans is under development You can help of course at our get-hop-agount slash Ira We also have widgets, which are written entirely and in jQuery or in JavaScript and These run live. You can you can go to widgets.irl.be And give you the right information about one certain station So thanks for listening I hope you enjoyed this and I hope Some people will come afterwards to me to ask whether their country can be Supported or certain type of transport can be supported. So if there are any questions, I would like to take them I think I have still five minutes left For a MIGO or Could you repeat the question? Yes The question was can we use this for MIMO 5 or For the older versions, I'm looking to my app developer and he says no only for 5 Yes Will we be able to download the schedule data? Well for some companies this is this is a major issue because they don't like to share that data in an open way and And afterwards so that other people can reuse that and maybe they will work with an older dump So with data that's not really up to date. So transport companies ask us to to To not offer data dumps, but for some Companies who will eventually do that if they allow us to do so Yes Can you speak up, please Sorry, I didn't get that Sorry, I really didn't get that Techniques that the providers use to stop me from screen scraping. No, we haven't So the question was do providers try to stop us and the answer is Yes, well we had this This season this is letter but from technical points. We have never received any obstruction like that So we we can wrote around that with with trying all the IPs and stuff if they would do that, but at this moment we we We we don't like to be seen as an illegal project We are we are really just some awesome people who try to be awesome for everyone even the transport companies Yes What is the Yes, that's a very good question. What's the license of the data that we already have Well, at this moment, we only have the data of the Belgian train company But the Belgian bus company the Flemish bus company is we are talking with and we are talking with the The Brussels Bus bus company but the The doubt of the the Belgian railway company is really Normal and in our point of view it's free to use You can use that without any any license since there's I'm sure even who's very close to you will give a very Yeah, of the right. Yeah, the front of you will give a very Very broad and broad answer to that But we generally say we there are no copyrights on the on the data Because of the second database law you can look that up a few if you want or ask even about that Thank you very much. Thank you very much Peter