Category: Open Data
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[Open Data] The National Building Reference System (RNB) – the creation of a national database
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Why create a unique identifier for each building in France? How do we create this national database, and with whom? Today we welcome the co-founders of the National Building Reference System (RNB), a database that defines a unique identifier for each building, in order to cross-reference disparate basic data.
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[Transport] The PAN: centralising transport data to decarbonise our journeys
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In order to accelerate the decarbonization of our travel and facilitate the modal shift, the French government has a national access point (PAN) that centralizes all transport data and makes it available to a rich and diverse ecosystem of reusers, including the large route planners. Discover with Maxime Siret, its manager, the history and functioning…
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[Transport] Public transport : open data and European regulation
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You use journey planning tools — but do you know where the data comes from? And are you aware of the role played by the EU and its member states in all this? With Tu-Tho Tai, we talk about open transport data, the revised European regulations after COVID, and the measures taken by member states.
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[Transports] – Create a railway business software and federate players in Europe: OSRD and the OpenRail association – SNCF Réseau
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In this episode, we discover the creation of the OSRD (Open Source Railway Designer) business software within SNCF Réseau. Its goal? Simulate a railway infrastructure using open algorithms. Another originality, the governance of the latter has been transferred to the OpenRail association, whose creation by European network managers you will learn the details.
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[Transports] Transition: Simulating and Optimizing a Public Transit Network – Y.Brosseau & P.L Bourbonnais
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Transition: Simulate and optimize transit networks. How can an open platform help improve their transport networks? In this episode, Yannick Brosseau and Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais from the Polytechnique Montréal Mobility Chair share their experience with Transition, the solution that the chair is developing to help transit companies optimize their flows.
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An introduction to the OpenStreetMap project – C.Quest
“The OpenStreetMap project is to build the most complete, exhaustive, and up-to-date global database of free geographic data.” Together with Christian Quest, one of the founders of the French OpenStreetMap community, we explore the history of OSM, its governance and its community.
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Open Food Facts, from the technical side – Alex Garel
Second episode on the Open Food Facts project! In this episode with Alex Garel, one of the developers and community facilitator, we talk about the technical and organizational challenges around code, contributions, and infrastructure.
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Open Food Facts – episode 1 – Manon Corneille
Let’s discover Open Food Facts, the open source food database and open data. With Manon Corneille, Head of Partnerships, we discuss the following topics: – the genesis of the project – the structure and legal form of OpenFoodFacts – Relations with citizens, state agencies, researchers and consumer associations – OpenFoodFacts and European manufacturers, the state…