Warsaw's Open Data API: Live Bus and Tram Positions Behind an API Key
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Warsaw's live bus and tram positions feed apps several million times a week. Their licence is less clear: the national catalogue says CC BY 4.0 and, in the same record, public domain.
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Since 2015 Warsaw City Hall has run api.um.warszawa.pl, an open-data platform that serves city datasets through an API, among them the live positions of the city's buses and trams, refreshed every 15 seconds. The city charges nothing for the data, but access needs a registration and a personal API key. In 2022 the city counted several million automated requests a week to the vehicle positions, from apps including Jak dojadę and Automapa. The positions come from the City Hall, not from the transport authority ZTM; the GTFS timetable feed that route planners use is built by an independent developer from ZTM schedule data shared through a restricted endpoint, and in his realtime feed some trip identifiers may not match that timetable. The city says a new portal, dane.um.warszawa.pl, will fully replace the old platform.
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Openness is described here in places that do not agree. The national catalogue labels the city's transit datasets CC BY 4.0, gives 'Other (Public Domain)' as the licence description in the same record, and points to the city's own terms of use; the city told a European programme it shares data without legal restrictions; and two independent reusers, a 2018 university thesis and the developer of the Warsaw GTFS feeds, read the terms as requiring credit to Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa with a date. A reuser cannot place this data on a licence ladder from the catalogue alone: the label and the conditions belong in one document.
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📅 How old is the evidence?
Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2015. 5 of 8 sources carry a publication date, from 31 August 2016 to 20 August 2024.
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- Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji (dane.gov.pl) · national governmentdane.gov.pl — catalogue record 'Lokalizacja pojazdów Tramwajów Warszawskich' (Urząd m.st. Warszawy) · updated 19 March 2024
- Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji (dane.gov.pl) · national governmentdane.gov.pl — catalogue record 'Rozkład jazdy komunikacji publicznej' (Urząd m.st. Warszawy) · updated 19 March 2024
- Politechnika Warszawska (Warsaw University of Technology) · researchWarsaw University of Technology — Bondarzewska, bachelor's thesis on tram-delay notifications (2018)
- Toportal · pressToportal — Warszawa. Dane po warszawsku (republished city press release, 22 Jun 2022)
- Interreg Europe · international organisationInterreg Europe — Good practice: Open data in the Warsaw way (20 Aug 2024)
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Evidence file · public beta 17 addressable claims, 8 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The file is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.
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Since 2015 Warsaw City Hall has run api.um.warszawa.pl, an open-data platform
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serves city datasets through an API
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the live positions of the city's buses and trams, refreshed every 15 seconds
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The city charges nothing for the data
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access needs a registration and a personal API key
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In 2022 the city counted several million automated requests a week to the vehicle positions
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from apps including Jak dojadę and Automapa
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The positions come from the City Hall, not from the transport authority ZTM
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the GTFS timetable feed that route planners use is built by an independent developer from ZTM schedule data shared through a restricted endpoint
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in his realtime feed some trip identifiers may not match that timetable
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The city says a new portal, dane.um.warszawa.pl, will fully replace the old platform
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The national catalogue labels the city's transit datasets CC BY 4.0
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gives 'Other (Public Domain)' as the licence description in the same record
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points to the city's own terms of use
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the city told a European programme it shares data without legal restrictions
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a 2018 university thesis
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the developer of the Warsaw GTFS feeds, read the terms as requiring credit to Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa with a date
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- Urząd m.st. Warszawy (Warsaw City Hall), Biuro Cyfryzacji; vehicle positions published by the City Hall, not by the transport authority ZTM
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- city-government
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8 source dossiers
Toportal — Warszawa. Dane po warszawsku (republished city press release, 22 Jun 2022)
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src-4c0918fa2968146d- Publisher
- Name not classified · toportal.pl
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2022-06-22
- Updated
- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-10-17
- Dossier created
- 2026-10-17
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Open the recorded source note
Regional daily reproducing a City Hall release (credited '/ um.warszawa.pl /'): the City Hall created the api platform in 2015; data served through an API; bus and tram positions updated every 15 seconds; several million automated requests a week to the vehicle-position resource, used by apps including Jak dojadę, Czy na czas, Gdzie ten tramwaj, Real bus and Automapa; Tadeusz Osowski, director of the City Hall's Biuro Cyfryzacji: the city charges no fees and does not ask who downloads the data.
dane.gov.pl — catalogue record 'Lokalizacja pojazdów Tramwajów Warszawskich' (Urząd m.st. Warszawy)
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src-bf124e09aab95477- Publisher
- Name not classified · api.dane.gov.pl
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2016-08-31
- Updated
- 2024-03-19
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-10-17
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- 2026-10-17
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Open the recorded source note
National open-data catalogue record filed by Warsaw City Hall for the tram-position dataset (record created 31 Aug 2016, modified 19 Mar 2024): licence name 'CC BY 4.0', licence description 'Other (Public Domain)'; access requires registration at api.um.warszawa.pl; terms of use are given on api.um.warszawa.pl.
dane.gov.pl — catalogue record 'Rozkład jazdy komunikacji publicznej' (Urząd m.st. Warszawy)
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src-090f01d8641b177d- Publisher
- Name not classified · api.dane.gov.pl
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2016-08-31
- Updated
- 2024-03-19
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-10-17
- Dossier created
- 2026-10-17
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Open the recorded source note
Catalogue record filed by Warsaw City Hall for the public-transport timetable dataset, with the same fields: licence name 'CC BY 4.0', licence description 'Other (Public Domain)', registration required, terms of use on api.um.warszawa.pl.
Interreg Europe — Good practice: Open data in the Warsaw way (20 Aug 2024)
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src-099eca9abd25d24b- Publisher
- Name not classified · interregeurope.eu
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2024-08-20
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-10-17
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- 2026-10-17
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Open the recorded source note
Good-practice entry owned by the City of Warsaw (PROACTsme project): architecture principles include 'making available without legal restrictions'; the city cites nearly 2 million daily requests to the platform and over 6,000 registered users as evidence of success.
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Warsaw University of Technology — Bondarzewska, bachelor's thesis on tram-delay notifications (2018)
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src-049cde5bbc346b76- Publisher
- Name not classified · ia.pw.edu.pl
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- pdf · language not classified
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-10-17
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- 2026-10-17
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Open the recorded source note
Bachelor's thesis (supervisor Mariusz Kamola) building a tram-delay alert service on the city's tram-position API: reusers must state the date of creation and the source, Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa; some datasets need an API key obtained by creating an account.
mkuran.pl — GTFS feeds: Warszawski Transport Publiczny (ZTM Warszawa)
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src-7070bfa09ae70b19- Publisher
- Name not classified · mkuran.pl
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-10-17
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- 2026-10-17
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Open the recorded source note
Independent developer's feed page: the Warsaw GTFS is licensed under ZTM Warszawa's data usage terms (ODbL for bus shapes); the realtime vehicle-position feed falls under the Warsaw Open Data Project usage terms, which require crediting 'Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa', the data download date and a link; vehicle locations come from the City Hall, not ZTM, so some trip_ids may not match the static GTFS.
WarsawGTFS — project README (GitHub)
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src-80027485faae021d- Publisher
- Name not classified · raw.githubusercontent.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-10-17
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- 2026-10-17
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Open the recorded source note
README of the open-source tool that builds the Warsaw GTFS: static data comes from a proprietary endpoint shared by ZTM, with restricted access requiring credentials; realtime feeds use data from dane.um.warszawa.pl with an API key.
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Warszawa 19115 — Dane po warszawsku
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src-980abb36cbf4629f- Publisher
- Name not classified · warszawa19115.pl
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-04-21
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- 2026-10-17
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- 2026-10-17
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Open the recorded source note
City contact-centre page on the 'Dane po warszawsku' project (updated 21 Apr 2026): announces the new portal dane.um.warszawa.pl, which within the coming months will fully replace api.um.warszawa.pl.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Warsaw's Open Data API: Live Bus and Tram Positions Behind an API Key” — Warsaw, Poland. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/warsaw-open-data/ (last verified 2026-10-17). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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