Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Data

NY MTA Opens Data, General Transit Feed Specification Formalized

By Ben Fried and Matthew Roth | Jan 13, 2010 | No Comments

In a big turnaround, the MTA now touts third-party transit applications on its website. As we’ve reported, the last bastion of closed transit data had been the New York Metropolitan region, served by the nation’s largest transit operator, the NYMTA, which is comprised of the Long Island Railroad, Metro North Railroad, and the NYC subways […]

How Google and Portland’s TriMet Set the Standard for Open Transit Data

By Matthew Roth | Jan 5, 2010 | 9 Comments

Photo: Steve Rhodes With national data transparency efforts like President Obama’s Open Data Initiative and municipal projects like New York City’s Big Apps or San Francisco’s Data SF, government agencies across the country have been opening their raw data sets, some more reluctantly than others. With the debut of City-Go-Round and media coverage generated about […]

New Website Prompts Transit Agencies to Open Data to the Public

By Matthew Roth | Dec 16, 2009 | 1 Comment

The software developers and open data advocates at Front Seat, known more familiarly for their Walk Score rankings of the most walkable U.S. cities, have turned their focus on transit agencies that have resisted opening transit data to third-party, open-source developers. Their new website, City-Go-Round, is an effort to encourage agencies to release their schedules […]