The combat will have been short and the winner was known in advance… This Wednesday, Benjamin Suchar, 24 years, developer of iPhone applications, alerted the media on the will of the RATP to prohibit its CheckMyMetro application.
In addition to Community information, this application gives access the plans of the underground railway network and to consult be time and routes of subway. What to ignite the RATP which estimates that these data belong to its intellectual property.
Polemic
the developer publishes a letter then that the control sent to Apple to withdraw the aforementioned application of its shop. “the RATP is the author of the chart of the Subway of Paris. The French and international laws thus protect this chart. Moreover, the RATP is owner of the mark. This application constitutes (also) an infringement with our rights as a producer of the data bases ", can one read.
Such an approach irritates. “One can wonder about this choice to preserve the monopoly of the access to the data for a service of public utility. Especially, this step goes contrary to the opening of the data of transport which took place in France in Rennes or Bordeaux or the United States and which from now on is encouraged by the European directive INSPIRES ", underlines Benjamin Suchar who is based on the emergence of the concept of open dated.
Vis-a-vis the polemic on the Web, the RATP indicates to our fellow-members PCInpact being entered in liaison with Benjamin Suchar. The content of the exchanges is not known but finally, the developer agreed to withdraw the plans and the schedules of its application.
“We are delighted owing to the fact that the RATP agrees our proposal to remove the chart of the subway and the access to the schedules and routes of the subway in exchange of the maintenance of the CheckMyMetro application on Appstore”, the developer indicates to our fellow-members.
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