Jon WorthToday and tomorrow I’m at #OpenTransport2025 in Wien. Friends and fellow regular rail travellers @moof @bovine3dom @maartje are also here. I’ll post as and when I can!
#OpenTransport2025 Yes ideas can happen in unlikely places. But to the person just scrolling on their phone while pissing at the urinal: that’s grim. Did you wash your phone too? 🤔
Talking to the @transitous people at #OpenTransport2025
One headache: data on international trains that is missing the other side of the border
My EN Dacia Hegyeshalom 🇭🇺 - Sighisoara 🇷🇴 is 1 train but shows as 2 on Transitous
Learning about Open Rail Association at #OpenTransport2025 https://openrailassociation.org
Entur in Norway has a free system called Tavla where you can build a departure screen for your local stop. https://tavla.entur.no/demo #OpenTransport2025
Patrick@jon Public APIs allow wonderful ideas to become possible.
I love my¹ HVV integration into Homeassistant, made possible by API access (open to anyone asking nicely) for I believe more than a decade now. 😃
-> https://www.hvv.de/de/fahrplaene/abruf-fahrplaninfos/datenabruf
¹ (Before this causes any misunderstandings: The integration is not by me; I was referring to the implementation in my personal Home Assistant setup. See https://github.com/nilstgmd/hvv-card and https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/hvv_departures)
@patrick anecdotally but local Verkehrsverbunde seem better able to do this than larger railways!