Tag Archives: Open source

TransitDataFeeder: open source web-based GTFS creation and maintenance tool

Roughly one month ago, the source code for TransitDataFeeder was released. TransitDataFeeder is an open source web-based application for creating and maintaining data in the General Transit Feed Specification. The software aims to offer equivalent functionality to what Trillium already … Continue reading

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OpenTripPlanner project

TriMet, The Open Planning Project, and developers of FivePoints, OneBusAway, Graphserver, and byCycle are working on an ambitious open-source multi-modal trip planner (the project name is OpenTripPlanner). When finished, the multi-modal trip planner software will plan journeys by a combination … Continue reading

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CityGoRound.org, a new transportation application directory

The folks at Front Seat, who’ve brought us WalkScore, among other great projects, have done it again.  Today, Front Seat launched CityGoRound.org When public transportation information was added to WalkScore, FrontSeat realized they needed more open Google Transit feed data … Continue reading

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Thoughts on “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of organizing without organizations”

By now most people know about Wikipedia, the collaboratively-written encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Isn’t that great and impressive that millions of people who don’t know each other can create such a useful and comprehensive resource? There are many other … Continue reading

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Open source and open data make for transit innovation

If you ever have the pleasure of visiting Portland, Oregon, one of the things you will notice make the city great is their transit system called TriMet. One of the best parts of riding TriMet, for me, is how available … Continue reading

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