JC Decaux open its data

[M-Rick]

JC Decaux just open its data, but for its French networks only for now.

http://www.macg.co/news/voir/259753/jcdecaux-libere-les-donnees-de-ses-velos-en-libre-service

https://developer.jcdecaux.com/#/home

[Laurent GRÉGOIRE]

Thanks for this news. For non french-speaking users below a crude
translation (manual edit of google translate) of the original article
(cross posting to opentripplanner-dev):

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Announced in February, the platform offers tools for developers to
integrate enterprise data to applications and services. Two types of
data are available: static data (few-changing information such as GPS
position, the number of slots, the availability of a payment terminal)
and dynamic data (number of bikes available, number of free slots,
etc..) Dynamic data is only accessible from an API, while others can be
downloaded from the website.

Data from Créteil, Marseille, Besançon, Rouen, Cergy-Pontoise, Lyon,
Nantes, Amiens, Paris, Mulhouse and Toulouse are available on JCDecaux
developer website.

The license adopted by the company is the "Licence Ouverte" (Open
License) [1], which was developed by Etalab, a service of the Prime
Minister in charge of open data. "This is a very open license which
allows the reuse of data, including commercial purposes, provided that
you mention the source and does not alter or distort it", says Lionel
Maurel, legal expert in digital environment, on his blog [2].

In Paris, it was already possible to find data for Vélib', but the API
is not documented, noted blog World in February. The researcher Etienne
Como has produced this visualization example of the use of Vélib' [3].
The release of the data and the launch of a documented API should
facilitate the work of developers.

[1]
http://www.etalab.gouv.fr/pages/licence-ouverte-open-licence-5899923.html
[2]
http://scinfolex.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/la-licence-etalab-un-atout-pour-la-diffusion-des-donnees-culturelles-et-de-recherche/
[3] http://www.comeetie.fr/galerie/velib/
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HTH,

--Laurent

[Andrew Byrd]

On 05/04/2013 01:05 PM, Laurent GR�GOIRE wrote:
> In Paris, it was already possible to find data for V�lib', but the API

> is not documented, noted blog World in February. The researcher Etienne

> Como has produced this visualization example of the use of V�lib' [3].

> The release of the data and the launch of a documented API should
> facilitate the work of developers.

By the way, Etienne did another V�lib visualization (load line diagrams)
using OpenTripPlanner for route assignment:
http://www.comeetie.fr/blog/?p=112

And he has a cibi.me-derived V�lib trip planner:
http://velibme.comeetie.fr/index.html

-Andrew