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Seattle launches open data website

March 2, 2010

The City of Seattle (WA) launched data.seattle.gov, a website that makes city data sets available to developers.

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Getting to yes on open data

February 26, 2010

While the federal government is moving forward through the Open Government Directive, progress at the state and local level has been slower.

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TTC launches trip planner: Still in beta, still buggy

February 4, 2010

The Toronto Transit Commission (ON) launched a beta version of its new trip planner and is seeking user feedback.

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OpenTripPlanner project proceeds

January 24, 2010

OpenTripPlanner is an open source multimodal trip planner that incorporates transit, bicycling, and walking directions.

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MTA opens data to developers

January 15, 2010

In a turnaround from previous pollicy, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority will make its route and schedule data available through a developers page on its redesigned website.

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See it? Send it.

December 29, 2009

CNN writes about Gov 2.0 and the growing list of applications that give citizens a greater voice in government.

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One-stop shopping for transit applications

December 11, 2009

City-Go-Round is a new website that helps transit riders find useful applications in their cities. Besides trying to make public transit more convenient, the site hopes to encourage agencies to make their data publicly available:
Lack of open data is the biggest barrier to software innovation. One of City-Go-Round’s goals is to make all public transit [...]

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MassDOT holds first developers conference

November 15, 2009

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation hosted its first developers conference on Saturday.

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San Francisco issues open data directive

October 23, 2009

San Francisco (CA) Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a new open data policy that asks city departments to make all datasets that are not considered confidential available on DataSF.org.

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DC issues iPhone app for Circulator

October 2, 2009

According to Greater Greater Washington, the District of Columbia’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer announced an iPhone application for tracking the DC Circulator.

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