Live Blogging – Northern Voice / Moosecamp 08 – TransitCAMP

Dustin Sachs is giving us the rundown on transitCAMP, and the challenges of “open source government.”

“Google has the transit data, but we don’t.”

No Canadian cities have made this data publicly accessible.

Some folks have scraped the site for the data themselves. (If they publish it, they’ll prob. get sued, though).

Someone in the back of the room knows the guy at BC Transit who helped release the data to Google – says it’s just in text files.

Question from the room: “What’s the problem with just Google having it? Does the public really NEED it?”

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Tags: nv08, moosecamp, transitcamp, opensource government