Rail radar

[Pravin Carvalho]

Have any of you noticed this recently? Its quite evident that Didi and Laloo have had something to do with the number of trains in their states :)

http://railradar.trainenquiry.com/

Ideas on any other interesting things that could be done with this data?

[Venkatraman S]

FYI : The earlier one : SIMRAN (Satellite Imaging for Rail Navigation) http://simran.in/ is now closed.

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[Pranesh Prakash]

Pravin Carvalho [2012-10-11 13:05]:

From Medianama:
"Responding to questions at the #NAMA conference, Sunil Bajpai, Group
General Manager at CRIS, informed that the CRIS does have APIs for the
service but it does not intend to open them to developers in the near term,
although it might do so in the future."

http://goo.gl/cI6ll

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[Pranesh Prakash]

Pranesh Prakash <pra...@cis-india.org> [2012-10-17 19:38:14 +0530]:

> Pravin Carvalho [2012-10-11 13:05]:
>> Have any of you noticed this recently? Its quite evident that Didi and
>> Laloo have had something to do with the number of trains in their
>> states :)
>> http://railradar.trainenquiry.com/
>> Ideas on any other interesting things that could be done with this data?
>
> From Medianama:
> "Responding to questions at the #NAMA conference, Sunil Bajpai, Group
> General Manager at CRIS, informed that the CRIS does have APIs for the
> service but it does not intend to open them to developers in the near
> term, although it might do so in the future."
>
> http://goo.gl/cI6ll

Does anyone know if there has been a change in this regard?

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[srinivas kodali]

What exactly do you want to know? I don`t understand the change you are referring to?

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[Pranesh Prakash]

Dear Srinivas,
I was wondering if the opening up of the CRIS APIs — referred to in the
Medianama article — had actually happened.

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Pranesh

srinivas kodali <iota....@gmail.com> [2015-04-29 17:52:17 +0530]:

[srinivas kodali]

Nope, In fact the railways started encrypting their api`s lately. 

But the google news is surprising as the railways actually doesn`t publish real-time data of suburban trains. They do have the data for operational needs, but they are not available anywhere publicly.

Regards,
Srinivas Kodali

[Aadesh Sachan]

Hi,

I believe Indian railway does have an API and is open for the developers after they procure the license to use this.

They have two types of licenses associated 

1. Commercial

2. Non Commercial [intended for free information apps/no revenue apps]

Once you apply/request for api key to railways , then they will evaluate your applications and if everything goes right then you can get a private Indian railway API key to be used only at server side.

Using this API key you can access almost every thing from Indian railways servers.

Things that you can do -

1. Access complete train information

2. Live status of train

3. Time Table

4.  Fare

5. PNR Status

6. Cancelled Train

7. Coach position

etc

What you cant do - 

Actual Ticket booking

Thanks 

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[srinivas kodali]

Aadesh,

If you were referring to erail API of Indian railways http://api.erail.in/, then erail is a pvt. organization and cannot sell govt. data. But if you have actually come across any documentation of what you mentioned, please do share the links.

Regards,
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[Aadesh Sachan]

Hi Srinivas,

Yes I am referring the same api and for the non commercial purpose only.

So I don't think they are selling any thing as there is no revenue generated for same.

Now what the website say -

"The aim is to provide non-commercial usage of the data and a platform where innovative feature rich websites/apps can be developed by independent developers. These applications developed will help Indian Railways travelers in making more informed decisions about their travel."

this makes me think that any developer with non commercial license can use the api and make the free information/utility apps on top of their API.

As I have erail api key from them but I do not have any explicit documentation to support the authorized use of Indian railway data.

For a developer stand point I don't think it matters like from where erail.in procures the data  .

Thanks

Regards

Aadesh

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[srinivas kodali]

It matters as the railways prohibits sharing of this data in a structured format. 

http://enquiry.indianrail.gov.in/ntes/disclaimerDisplay.jsp

and at the same time railways is giving data to google with god knows what licenses. 

erail is exploiting the railway websites and is not a sustainable way of doing things. Also you don`t get suburban trains data.

Regards,
Srinivas Kodali