[General Topics] Waza_Be:
UPDATE

This app is working for Belgium and netherlands

Hello all,

I just wanted to talk to you about a community project that is really growing fast and will become something huge soon! We really need the help of the xda community to make it available everywhere. So please take the time to read, forgive my english knowledge and typos and contact me to have more infos.

I think that we all have smartphones (iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, WebOS, Bada) to get real time information.

One topic that should interest everyone is public transport, because while waiting for a train, subway, bus, you have your phone in your hand and you wonder "When will my vehicle arrive?"

Sometimes, you have some electronic panels on the station, but most of the time, these panels does not provide info you need or you are not at the station.

That's why I first began to create an application that provide Real Time information about trains in Belgium on Android:

http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/tof.cv.mpp/

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This app was scrapping the train company information and was working quite well.

Then I met some other Belgian people that were working on an API for trains, and I just want to talk you about this project and get the help of the xda community to make something big and open source.

The project is located here: http://project.irail.be/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi

and you will have a lot informations by browsing the project page.

The main point is to make an API for public transports and folowing KISS guidelines (Keep It Short and Simple), just have a look at the description: http://project.irail.be/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi/wiki/APIv1Draft

So time is now on working to make it bigger and use it everywhere in the world.

Current status:

The API is working for trains in Belgium and we have already build:

* a website

* an Android app

Some projects are going worked on:

* an iPhone application

* Bada, Windows Mobile 7, QT.

What we plan to do in the future:

* Support other countries than Belgium.

* Support other transportations than trains.

* Create applications for every device and websites.

Why do we need your help?

First of all, we would like to make this app available for Europe. Because our route planner algorithm is working for every european train station.

So, we just need a list of stations of your country and the GPS location (Latitude/longitude) like this one:

http://api.irail.be/stations.php

If you want to add your country or can bring us help on an other transportation type feel free to reply to this topic.

Other help appreciated?

* You want to create something in your country (worldwide) by adding something new like subway in Mexico, Taxi in China, Airplanes in Egypt?

* You can code and improve the php code?

* You can help us to make a cool website?

* You are creative and have idea?

Just reply to this topic.

Who can help us?

* Everyone

* you have some ideas?

* you can code in PHP?

* You are a designer and you have photoshop/other skills?

* You can develop an application for mobile phones?

* ...

Conclusion

I hope that this project can get some enthousiast people and we will be able soon to provide open data to your country and on your mobile device.

Thanks for reading!