Thread: [Announce] Quando Parte, an Italian train station monitor
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2011-06-26 , 18:13
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Originally Posted by jafd View Post
In Python, for example, we have that thing called polymorphism. There could be hundreds of scrapers feeding data in some common format.

And then, apart from trains, there are many other different kinds of public transit going more or less on schedule and with more or less fixed routes.
The main problem as I see it, is finding out the data sources. Do you have any pointer handy, so that I may have a larger sample of data formats?

But, thinking about Quando Parte, also the data model would have to be changed: currently I keep the station list on the device all the time... But if I had to have many more stations that would not work, and I would have to download station location data from some kind of service.

I am not saying it is impossible to have such an application, but to have any chance to do that in any realistic time frame, there would need to be a community of people dedicated to complete the task, clean up data, report problems, etc.