While we're still waiting with bated breath for the details of the NSW Governments Apps4NSW competition, it appears that the NSW Government has released the first Dataset for third party use.

The Transport Data Exchange Programme is a programme to allow third party developers to build applications based on the Timetable and Service information released by the various Public Transport operators.

Below is a quick OOOG Review of the programme:

Open Source: 5

Yesterday I presented on OOOG at the 2nd Public Sphere event and I had some really good discussions about how it could be fine tuned and how the proposed OOOG Survey could operate.

Based on those discussions I'm looking at the following very tentative format for an OOOG Rating.

A Survey In Two Halves

I promised I would blog about my Public Sphere experience tonight and I'll do my best. However brain is a tad fried so be gentle.

Woke up this morning at 5 o'clock. Had organised a lift down and back with James Dellow (also known as chieftech on twitter). He turned up about quarter to six and we headed off into the fog. Turns out that I haven't lost the knack for falling asleep during long car trips.