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Open Source Route planning with Open Data2018-05-29
Pieter Colpaert
@pietercolpaert
https://pietercolpaert.be
Who needs some kind of route planning
for their business/research/gov task?
For whom route planning
is their core business?
Schedules Contract API keys Contract(about to change)
Open License
Real-time Contract API keysAPI keys
beta-versionno
Historic no no no no
And a real route planning needs access to a lot more datasets
What if we could build the best everroute planner together?
While everyone is sticking to their core business?
E.g., http://api.irail.be/stations?format=xml&lang=enA route planning API
And other calls to:plan routes, get train information, list arrivals and departures at a specific station
Powering route planning apps or integrations
Now serving more than1 million requests/dayMore information at https://hello.irail.be
Yet… the iRail API
● Only works with SNCB data (unimodal)
● Only works from station to station (not door to door)
● Serves a black-box algorithm
● Doesn’t link with e.g., Blue Bikes, Villo, parking availability, elevators…
… So at UGent – IMEC we invented Linked Connections
$ curl https://graph.irail.be/sncb/connections
JSON with Linked Data
Publishing ecosystem
Data reuse ecosystem
Tools to produce data in the fragments
Tools to host data in the right format
Publishing specifications
Tools to request data over HTTP and following links:Intelligent Web Crawlers
Route Planning software
Our Open Source tools so far:https://github.com/linkedconnections
Now working with: