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Originally Posted by knobtviker View Post
Sorry, I didn't express myself properly.
They have data, but it cannot be accessed. No apps are made for any platform.
When Croatia joins EU next year, government companies will be forced to share all the data to the public. Only then we can make apps.
Well, the Czech Republic has been in the EU for quite a while, but there is still a single company that has a defacto monopol on gathering all public transit info (the transit providers are obliged by the law to supply up to date shedules to this company) and although it provides quite a nice website for searching the database, there is no API for third-party apps and they seems to be quite actively trying to defend against large scale scrapping through the web interface.

Well, there are still some ways to access it, but its far from how nicely it could work if they provided a proper API or even just a database dump.
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