Session

Something about transport data in Belgium

  • Time: 16h00-16h30
  • Location: Aula 1
  • Level: Beginner
  • Type: Keynote

Something about transport data in Belgium

Open Data is changing people’s lives, they say. But does it? Minister of the digital agenda Philippe De Backer and minister of mobility François Bellot awarded Open Knowledge Belgium a grant to raise the iRail API to the next level. Curious how mobility data is going to be published next? Come and find out.

Speakers

Hello I'm PIETER COLPAERT

Works at imec - Ghent University, volunteers at Open Knowledge Belgium and the iRail project. His research is on publishing transport data for maximum reuse.

PIETER COLPAERT

Postdoctoral researcher

IDLab – Ghent University – imec

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Hello I'm BEN ABELSHAUSEN

Ben Abelshausen is known in Open Knowledge Belgium as the lead of the OpenStreetMap Belgium working group, member of the board and 'crazy about mapping'. His day job is all about route planning and optimization and the open-source route planning project Itinero. He also co-founded Anyways that specializes in the areas of mobility, route planning and open-data.

BEN ABELSHAUSEN

Owner

Anyways, Itinero

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