Crunching rail timetables
For those of you new to this blog, I’ve been doing some work with timetable data for a few months now, and I presented my work at OpenTech with Jonathan Raper earlier this year. I’m working with some...
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The Open Knowledge Foundation asked me to write a blog entry on my Open Rail Data work. Big thanks to a friend of mine, Clare Farrar, for her superb editorial skills.
View ArticleThe Chancellor’s Autumn Statement
Many people reading my blog are interested in Open Data – here are the three important paragraphs from the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement earlier, as they relate to Open Data: “1.125 Making more public...
View ArticleOpening Great Britain’s Rail Data
It’s my first time in Helsinki, and the weather is much the same as a September day in London – wet. I finished preparing for my talk at OKFestival a little under 24 hours ago, and it went without a...
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Open Rail Data – Two Years On
After a brief, but really interesting visit to the former Bletchley PSB (or signalbox, if you’re less of a railway geek), I popped in to OpenTech 2013 to present an update to the presentation I gave...
View ArticleGoogle Maps’ Data Quality
Harry Wood pointed out that Google Maps has removed Camden Town tube station from its map.Whilst I doubt Google have done this intentionally, it has set me thinking about data quality. When developing...
View ArticleOpen Rail Data
Jonathan Raper and I gave presentations on Open Rail Data – Jonathan from a more political angle, and me from a decidedly technical angle. The material went down really well – there’s plenty of scope...
View ArticleCIF parsing
Wow, what a lot of data. And what an absolute dog ActiveRecord is for inserting data en-masse! Still, I have a CIF extract of all London Overground services being imported on my laptop as I write this....
View ArticleMaking a bad situation worse
Last night’s attempted cable theft at Woking wasn’t a pleasant experience for the thousands of people trying to get home. An earlier signalling problem at Clapham Junction disrupted my journey out to...
View ArticleCleanweb, February 2015
Yesterday evening, I gave a talk on Open Rail Data at Cleanweb. I wished I could have stayed longer – there were plenty of discussions to be had, but after a busy Open Data Day on Saturday, the call of...
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