This is a very good video explaining the sharing of transportation data. City of Portland made these data accessible to everyone to “let the citizen decides by himself”. That’s quite cool. And that makes an excellent evangelizing video for Montreal Ouvert in convincing Montreal City.
Open Data, a tale of the city
Data as both a tool for accountability and a source of innovation
is used by Martin Prosperity Institute in a recent article: Open Data, Open City. There is an associated longer report (PDF).
Open data is both a philosophy and a practice. Municipalities collect extensive data about the city and its residents, and the practice of freely sharing this data online is gaining ground in cities across the country and around the world. Vancouver and Washington, D.C. both
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Open Data Business
Is it the right time to do business around Open Data?
is a question I’m being asked quite often. Any kind of new trends create an uncertainty when it is related to invest time and money. I have no crystall ball but it is quite easy to notice the growing interests from many parties.
Open Data and Public Services
Look at Guardian search results for “open data” string. 110 matches including 7… …
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Montréal Ouvert – Première Réunion – Compte Rendu
La première réunion de Montréal Ouvert a été un succès. Le sujet : « Les données de la ville de Montréal. » Je ne sais pas ce qui était le plus encourageant la chaleur des discussions, l’envie de faire bouger les choses ou la grande diversité des personnes présentes. En effet, nous étions tous d’horizons différents étudiants, chefs d’entreprises, employés de la… …
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Open Your Data and Make Business
In Montreal Transportation Open Data, I was writing:
Give the opportunity for people to develop commercial (or not) applications helping/driving users to order tickets or use more the service.
The Bixi system has been inaugurated in London this summer. According to the Guardian, Transport For London, decided to release the data to encourage developers to create innovative applications.
Transport for London (TfL) is suddenly getting the free data/app development religion. Having just relaxed its rules to allow commercial
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Gérer le conflit entre spécifications
Ce matin, sur twitter, Aurélien Levy me pose une question intéressante :
@karlpro question W3C : qui est chargé de refuser une passage en CR qd un standard va à l’encontre d’un autre ex : #html5 #wcag2 #longdesc
La réponse n’est pas tout à fait qui, mais comment. Petit rappel : La phase Candidate Recommendation est le moment où un groupe de travail annonce au monde que la spécification est suffisamment mature pour tester sur les implémentations. Il… …
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Montreal Transportation Open Data
Yann has written a blog post on why it is good for transportation companies to share their data (French). Go read it. He has forgotten brand and commercial reasons.
When I was looking at the Canadian landscape for Open data, I was wondering about Montréal Open Data. Since …
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Comments Are Blog Posts
The Pheromone Lab is a space for experimentation in the company. But it is also a space for exploration into itself. I was discussing with Olivier on how we could improve the engagement of people participating to this space.
So far, from Pheromone André Bélanger, Arnaud Blaszkowsky, Daniel Desrosiers, Karl Dubost, Jean-François Dumas, Rémy Giard, Benoit Goyette, Chrystian Guy, Céline Seeman, Sabine Séguin, Olivier Théreaux have… …
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bixar: find your bike in Montreal
bixar is a mobile augmented reality (3d) layer helping people finding
- bike stations with free docks (can you park?)
- available bikes in each station (can you get a bike?)
for Montréal, Canada.
We like to experiment stuff and play with tools available around us. Most of the time, someone (a developer, someone in bizdev, etc) will get an idea or have a need, and ask Could we do that? Many of us at Pheromone are users… …
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bixar: trouver son vélo à Montréal
bixar est un calque (3d) de réalité augmentée afin d’aider les montréalais à trouver
- les stations de vélos avec des places libres (puis-je me garer ?)
- les vélos disponibles à chaque station (puis-je obtenir un vélo ?)
pour Montréal, Canada.
Nous aimons expérimenter et jouer avec les outils autour de nous. La plupart du temps, quelqu’un (un développeur, une personne aux développements des affaires, etc.) aura une idée ou un besoin, et demandera Pourrions nous le… …
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