On Civic Software » Open Data http://blog.frontseat.org On civic software, open data, government 2.0, transportation and walkability Wed, 12 May 2010 19:43:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Open Data Gets Moving http://blog.frontseat.org/2010/02/open-data-gets-moving/ http://blog.frontseat.org/2010/02/open-data-gets-moving/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:00:19 +0000 Mike Mathieu http://blog.frontseat.org/?p=146 Transit agencies are on the move — opening up their GTFS transit feeds at a record pace. Through January, 107 transit agencies now provide open data — up 41% since the December launch of City-Go-Round, a nifty little site that promotes the virtues of open transit data and highlights the cool apps that civic-minded software developers have built using those data feeds.

While we love up-and-right pointing graphs, more than 650 other transit agencies are lacking open data, and we hope to see that change in 2010.

City-Go-Round contains a list, (lovingly called The Wall of Shame here at the office), of the 10 largest transit agencies without open data.

Amazingly, just since our launch, 4 of the original Top 10 agencies have gone Open Data, and of the 4 new ones that took their place, half of those opened up too. This leaves us with a new top 10 as we head into February:

]]> http://blog.frontseat.org/2010/02/open-data-gets-moving/feed/ 2 Open Data Milestone as MTA Relents http://blog.frontseat.org/2010/01/open-data-milestone-as-mta-relents/ http://blog.frontseat.org/2010/01/open-data-milestone-as-mta-relents/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:12:21 +0000 Mike Mathieu http://blog.frontseat.org/?p=86 For the first time, a majority of all transit passenger-miles in the U.S. are now covered by transit agencies with open data. This follows the release of open GTFS feeds from New York’s MTA and represents the first “local jurisdiction” vertical within the burgeoning open data / civic software / Gov 2.0  movement that has made Open the “new normal” way of doing business.

With New York off the list, the new #1 transit agency with no open data is New Jersey Transit, followed by NE Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad, and Metro Atlanta RTA.

City-Go-Round lists 102 transit agencies with open data — a 50% increase since November, when Walk Score first added its public transit support with an open-only policy.

What do citizens get from this new data? Well, app searching on City-Go-Round is now fully functional for New York, and reveals 28 apps available to local riders. Check ‘em out!

A big congratulations to MTA and the NY Open Transit Data group, who have worked hard to overcome the political, legal, and technical hurdles to opening up this civic resource for New Yorkers.

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