The first ever public transportation app for the iPhone and iPad, NOLA Transit, launched last week. The app was created by Joel Carranza, a professional map maker and software developer for over 20 years now. NOLA Transit provides easy to follow directions, an interactive system map with a nearby stop list, a complete schedule and [...]
Neighborland’s “Ideas in Action” allows the ideas of fellow site users and innovators to see their ideas come to life one way or another. Open Transit Data was one of those ideas that is now becoming available to outside groups, the public, instead of just being shared with the transit agencies. Transport for NOLA partnered [...]
Have you signed Transport for NOLA‘s petition for Open Transit Data? I had some concerns as a techie when I reviewed the comments on this petition. I agree that Open Data (information that is freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control) is a public good that [...]
