We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I presume this £4m app paid for by the public purse is open source so that we can all see and benefit from it? Anyone got a link?

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  • Gargantuan@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    why would that mean it has to be open source? Should we be open sourcing all our defece projects too?

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    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a transport app. Not the code to the nuclear defences.

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    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That might not be practical. But everything else done with public money should be open source. A lot of these software projects are more or less necessary for every city globally. Collaborating on a few apps and programmes is a lot more sensible then everyone having an app custom build by a contractor.

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes.

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    • Hegar@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Open source defeces projects do sounds pretty shit.

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    • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Security by obscurity doesn’t exist, so perhaps yes.

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Proprietary app, run by Trafi, a company that advertises itself as selling “mobility as a service”.

  No thanks.

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  • Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t doubt it’s just an enshittified frontend to Google Maps.

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• Ash@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good work. Less reliance on american shite, labour council doing something that benefits british people, using public funds to fund public benefitting programs. In Kent however under Reform they invented 40 million of savings and spent over one third of the cost to create this app (1.5million) on a single private car park for themselves.

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• meejle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A new £4m transport app […] which has now been downloaded more than 5,000 times

  I know it has to start somewhere, but still, I can’t help being tickled that it’s currently costing £800 per user.

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• florge@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Link to the app since it wasn’t directly linked in the article.

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• LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  downloading the app was very simple. I didn’t need to set up an account, or any of that nonsense

  Ya love to see it

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