Comments on: Joined-up thinking http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/03/23/joined-up-thinking/ The blog of Sam Newman Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:05:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Stuart http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/03/23/joined-up-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-2898 Stuart Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:45:13 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/03/23/joined-up-thinking/#comment-2898 Just found you post whilst looking for other TPEG feeds, thought I would let you know that I have managed to parse the TPEG feeds and display them on Virtual Earth http://www.aylesburyvale.net/traffic Just found you post whilst looking for other TPEG feeds, thought I would let you know that I have managed to parse the TPEG feeds and display them on Virtual Earth

http://www.aylesburyvale.net/traffic

]]> By: Sam Newman http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/03/23/joined-up-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-2897 Sam Newman Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:39:48 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/03/23/joined-up-thinking/#comment-2897 Which isn't even valid XML according to firefox (it looks like it is though - IE can handle it). If I can get it to parse creating an RSS feed shouldn't be hard. I'd need to apply some kind of selector to get out only the london underground info (and filter out old news). Which isn’t even valid XML according to firefox (it looks like it is though – IE can handle it). If I can get it to parse creating an RSS feed shouldn’t be hard. I’d need to apply some kind of selector to get out only the london underground info (and filter out old news).

]]> By: Benjamin Armintor http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/03/23/joined-up-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-2896 Benjamin Armintor Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:43:07 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/03/23/joined-up-thinking/#comment-2896 They certainly appear to have an XML feed: http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/TravelFeeds?v=138u http://www.bbc.co.uk/travelnews/xml/tpegml_en/pti.xml They certainly appear to have an XML feed:
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/TravelFeeds?v=138u
http://www.bbc.co.uk/travelnews/xml/tpegml_en/pti.xml

]]> By: Sam Newman http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/03/23/joined-up-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-2895 Sam Newman Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:24:06 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/03/23/joined-up-thinking/#comment-2895 The data is actually the same - either the BBC provide it for TFL, or the TFL data is given to the BBC. From what I can tell, the information is syndicated in a format called "TPEG":http://www.tpeg.org/what_is_tpeg.htm - Backstage actually "expose this feed(BBC Backstage Trave Feeds)":http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/TravelFeeds?v=138u, and I believe there are some prototype projects looking to transform it into something useful. It sounds like a TPEG to RSS convertor is just what the doctor ordered - and as TPEG is simply XML, perhaps a bit of nifty XSLT would do the job? The data is actually the same – either the BBC provide it for TFL, or the TFL data is given to the BBC.

From what I can tell, the information is syndicated in a format called “TPEG”:http://www.tpeg.org/what_is_tpeg.htm – Backstage actually “expose this feed(BBC Backstage Trave Feeds)”:http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/TravelFeeds?v=138u, and I believe there are some prototype projects looking to transform it into something useful.

It sounds like a TPEG to RSS convertor is just what the doctor ordered – and as TPEG is simply XML, perhaps a bit of nifty XSLT would do the job?

]]> By: Robert Baillie http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/03/23/joined-up-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-2894 Robert Baillie Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:58:00 +0000 http://www.magpiebrain.com/2006/03/23/joined-up-thinking/#comment-2894 And BBC aren't alone in that... TFL (Transport for London: http://www.tfl.gov.uk) do similar. They offer RSS feeds for press releases and articles printed in The Metro. But nothing on travel updates. Odd. And BBC aren’t alone in that…

TFL (Transport for London: http://www.tfl.gov.uk) do similar. They offer RSS feeds for press releases and articles printed in The Metro. But nothing on travel updates.

Odd.

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