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New York City adds new features to GIS application

April 27, 2009

The City of New York has updated its online GIS tool with new data layers and mapping features.

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Open source and open data make for transit innovation

March 25, 2009

For More Riders Magazine, Aaron Antrim interviewed two of the key IT managers at the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation  District of  Oregon, in Portland:  Tim McHugh, TriMet’s Chief Technology Officer and Bibiana McHugh, IT Manager of GIS and Location-Based Services.  Their wide-ranging conversation covered TriMet’s efforts to make route and schedule data available to the developer [...]

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TriMet embraces open source technology

February 16, 2009

The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, in Portland, is using open source technology to provide customer information while minimizing costs to the agency. For example, TriMet’s online trip planner — which uses GeoServer, OpenLayers, and PostGIS — enables customers to plan a trip and access real-time arrival information.  A key benefit of this approach is [...]

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LimeWire creator brings open-source approach to urban planning

February 2, 2009

“Entrepreneur Mark Gorton wants to do for people what he already helped do for files: move them from here to there in the most efficient way possible using open-source tools. Gorton, whose LimeWire file sharing software for the open-source gnutella network was at the forefront of the P2P revolution nearly a decade ago, is taking profits [...]

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