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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

Try it yourself at

http://LinkedConnections.org

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: