Category Archives: Open Data

An API for AMT data

Posted on December 14, 2011 by William Lachance

The AMT released their GTFS schedule information to the public earlier this week, which is awesome. Not coincidentally, Montreal is going to have a Transportation Camp tomorrow, wherein people will hack on transportation software and discuss open data issues. GTFS … Continue reading →

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Updates on my ridiculous pet projects

Posted on September 29, 2011 by William Lachance

1. As you may or may not have noticed, hbus.ca has been down for the past few weeks. Halifax updated the data but I didn’t have a chance to update it. Well, I finally did, and hbus is now up … Continue reading →

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Template for a map-based web app

Posted on June 3, 2011 by William Lachance

Finally got around doing something I’d meaning to for a while, which is create a simple template for a web-based mapping application based on jQuery and some of my earlier work on routez. I’m hoping this might be useful as … Continue reading →

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Routez opensourced

Posted on April 19, 2011 by William Lachance

Just a quick note to say that I just opensourced the software behind hbus.ca, nicknamed “Routez” under the Affero GPL. You can get the code on github. For those new to the project, hbus.ca is a generic trip planning / … Continue reading →

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Déchets Montréal goes mobile

Posted on February 19, 2011 by William Lachance

A few weekends ago, there was a Montréal Ouvert hackfest at the Notman House. I decided to take a bit of a break from my usual transit hacking and built up a mobile friendly interface to the wonderful Déchets Montréal, … Continue reading →

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