Looking at @transportapi (https://developer.transportapi.com ) & wondering just what about it is ‘open’. Seems closed/proprietary. Thoughts, @ukodi?
@agentGav I fail to see how calling closed system w proprietary API ‘open’ is not redefining the word. +@MadProf @frabcus @transportapi
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@aral@MadProf@frabcus@transportapi this conversation needs more nouns. "open" isn't a thing. -
@agentGav@MadProf@frabcus@transportapi That’s definitely the feeling I’m getting also :) Going to start using free/libre for precision. -
@aral@MadProf@frabcus@transportapi using "free/libre" has no utility here, since open *data* is, by definition freely licensed (e.g. OGL) -
@agentGav This license (https://developer.transportapi.com/terms ) is not open. It merely allows use via restrictive terms. +@MadProf@frabcus@transportapi -
@aral@MadProf@frabcus@transportapi I never said that transportAPI are *publishing* open data. You are talking about a different thing. -
@agentGav On the@transportapi site: ‘Britain’s first comprehensive open platform’. That’s what I have an issue with. +@MadProf@frabcus -
@aral@transportapi@MadProf@frabcus versus http://theodi.org/guides/what-open-data … - we are talking at x-purposes. Data != Services. They *consume* OD. -
@agentGav@aral it's true, means@transportapi is no more open than Google Maps. Marketing should refelect it. Am sure customers won't mind!
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@aral@MadProf@frabcus In our view@transportapi is a great example of a consumer of open data. They are not (yet) a producer of open data. -
@agentGav@aral@frabcus@transportapi OK. There we go. 4 people. 5 different views on what open means. Help yourself to our data if u want. - End of conversation
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@aral@agentGav@frabcus@transportapi what do you mean by 'open'. Free rights to use output of an API is 'open' to me -
@MadProf@aral@frabcus@transportapi -@ukODI has a certification scheme for open data -- https://certificates.theodi.org/
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