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How Google, Moovit and Citymapper reuse open mobility data
Many people use apps to get around in their daily lives. Apps such as Google Maps, Moovit or CityMapper provide the fastest and most efficient route to a destination. However, what many users are unaware of is that behind these platforms lies a valuable source of information: open data. By reusing public datasets, such as those related to air quality, traffic or…
Private company data sharing initiatives: success stories
In today's digital age, data sharing and opendatahave emerged as key pillars for innovation, transparency and economic development. A number of companies and organisations around the world are adopting these approaches to foster open access to information and enhance data-driven decision making. Below, we explore some international and national examples of how these…
Promotion of tourist attractions and recommendations to visitors with open data
As our lives become more and more digitized, activities as face-to-face as “tourism” are also being pushed towards a transformation as profound as that of other sectors and activities. In this digitization process, both the data and the technologies associated with artificial intelligence are essential and this was highlighted, for example, by the 2020 European…
How do Spanish initiatives measure the impact of open data?
Measuring the impact of open data is not always easy. As we saw a few weeks ago, there are several theoretical models that are not easy to implement, so we have to look for different approaches. In the Aporta Initiative we use a mixed approach, as explained here: a quantitative analysis through indicators on data publication and its characteristics, and a qualitative…
2019, the year of open public transport data in Spain?
When we think about the reasons for promoting open data policies, one of the main reasons that immediately comes to mind is the improvement of citizens' life quality. There are many areas where open data have shown a significant impact on improving our day to day decisions-making, but one of the most important is related to mobility.
Public transport is one of the…
