OMF Question: Use of MDS Beta Features

[Michael Schnuerle]

Hello OMF Community,

We are reviewing the current MDS specification, specifically the use of beta features. These were added by the community in different MDS versions to allow city agencies, mobility providers, and third parties to try them out in a structured way. Once we get feedback from the real world, we can adjust them and move them out of beta. 

We'd like to know which of the following MDS beta items you are using, how you are using them, what your use cases are, and what you think works well or what could be modified.

1. Provider

1. Vehicles (added in MDS v0.4)

2. Stops (added in MDS v0.4)

2. Agency

1. Stops (added in MDS v0.4)

3. Policy

   1. Rates (added in MDS v1.0) 

If you'd like to share your thoughts, just respond to me directly by email at mic...@openmobilityfoundation.org in the next week or two.  Your response can be informal and we will keep it internal to the OMF, sharing only aggregate information (eg, 3 cities are using Vehicles and here is how one is using it...).  Just knowing simply that you are using or plan to use any of them is useful to us as well.

Thanks,

Michael Schnuerle

Director of Open Source Operations

@MichaelMobility · @OpenMobilityFnd