Yes, that's why I was singling out Ottawa.
And they just don't get it:
"OC Transpo slams private twitters tweeting bus updates" July 14 2010
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/07/14/ottawa-transpo-twitter.html-Glen
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Mekki MacAulay Abdelwahab
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> OC Transpo used to have open data to enable exactly this kind of thing, and
> some really smart developers who worked with members of the public to create
> neat applications. This dates back more than 10 years. A few years later,
> they abruptly closed everything down and locked up all the data,
> deliberately making it impossible for anyone to do anything with it. It was
> clearly a political decision.
>
> I'm not sure anything has changed in OC Transpo leadership to make it
> otherwise.
>
> Mekki
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> On 14/07/2011 5:04 PM, Glen Newton wrote:
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>> Ottawa in particular (and other Canadian cities) could learn from this:
>> "New York State’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is challenging
>> developers to create new software applications that improve the
>> transit experience of its 8.5 million daily riders. The MTA is a
>> complex transportation system that generates many different kinds of
>> data, presenting an intriguing challenge for app developers."
>>
http://mtaappquest.com/>>
>> [U.S. residents only]
>>
>> -glen newton
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