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Warsaw's Open Data API: Live Bus and Tram Positions Behind an API Key

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 17 claims and 8 source dossiers.

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Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-0cc4784d93a60fc6 quantitative
Since 2015 Warsaw City Hall has run api.um.warszawa.pl, an open-data platform
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The city release says the City Hall created the api platform for open data in 2015.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Toportal — Warszawa. Dane po warszawsku (republished city press release, 22 Jun 2022)
Claim 2 clm-5f1fb9f1015b73ff descriptive
serves city datasets through an API
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
All resources are available through an application programming interface prepared by the City Hall.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Toportal — Warszawa. Dane po warszawsku (republished city press release, 22 Jun 2022)
Claim 3 clm-399ad463c30768b7 quantitative
the live positions of the city's buses and trams, refreshed every 15 seconds
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What the mapping says
The release lists online transport data showing the current position of buses and trams, updated every 15 seconds.
Caveat
Other city documentation and reusers have given different refresh intervals over the years; 15 seconds is the city's 2022 statement.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Toportal — Warszawa. Dane po warszawsku (republished city press release, 22 Jun 2022)
Claim 4 clm-6ea538a92f8fa6fd descriptive
The city charges nothing for the data
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What the mapping says
The director of the City Hall's digitisation office: 'we charge no fees for it and do not ask who downloads it'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Toportal — Warszawa. Dane po warszawsku (republished city press release, 22 Jun 2022)
Claim 5 clm-6058b99877897f5c descriptive
access needs a registration and a personal API key
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The catalogue record says access to the dataset requires registration at api.um.warszawa.pl; the 2018 thesis describes creating an account to obtain a unique API key, a mandatory call parameter.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. dane.gov.pl — catalogue record 'Lokalizacja pojazdów Tramwajów Warszawskich' (Urząd m.st. Warszawy)
  2. Warsaw University of Technology — Bondarzewska, bachelor's thesis on tram-delay notifications (2018)
Claim 6 clm-f18cd438ec43b8b1 quantitative
In 2022 the city counted several million automated requests a week to the vehicle positions
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What the mapping says
The release says vehicle-position data draws the most interest and receives several million automated requests a week.
Caveat
A usage count reported by the city, not an evaluation of what the data changed.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Toportal — Warszawa. Dane po warszawsku (republished city press release, 22 Jun 2022)
Claim 7 clm-e54d2e9b9851b5ed descriptive
from apps including Jak dojadę and Automapa
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What the mapping says
The release names the creators of Jak dojadę, Czy na czas, Gdzie ten tramwaj, Real bus and Automapa among the users.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Toportal — Warszawa. Dane po warszawsku (republished city press release, 22 Jun 2022)
Claim 8 clm-f129c33b0a5d95b6 descriptive
The positions come from the City Hall, not from the transport authority ZTM
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The developer who republishes the feed notes that vehicle locations are supplied by Warsaw City Hall rather than by ZTM.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. mkuran.pl — GTFS feeds: Warszawski Transport Publiczny (ZTM Warszawa)
Claim 9 clm-9bc15a178cf6b4ab descriptive
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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What the mapping says
The WarsawGTFS README says static data comes from a proprietary ZTM endpoint whose access is restricted and needs credentials; the developer's page publishes the resulting warsaw.zip under ZTM's data usage terms.
Caveat
That route planners use this feed rests on the developer's own publication and on the app makers who credit it; no ZTM statement on its own feeds was read.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. WarsawGTFS — project README (GitHub)
  2. mkuran.pl — GTFS feeds: Warszawski Transport Publiczny (ZTM Warszawa)
Claim 10 clm-a3d22492101c6abc descriptive
in his realtime feed some trip identifiers may not match that timetable
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
Because positions come from the City Hall, the developer warns that some trip_ids in the realtime feed may not match any trip in the static GTFS.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. mkuran.pl — GTFS feeds: Warszawski Transport Publiczny (ZTM Warszawa)
Claim 11 clm-d9a3c3cabb17884a descriptive
The city says a new portal, dane.um.warszawa.pl, will fully replace the old platform
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The city page announces that within the coming months the new Otwarte dane Warszawy service will fully replace api.um.warszawa.pl.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Warszawa 19115 — Dane po warszawsku
Claim 12 clm-f90dc9edb06d279b quantitative
The national catalogue labels the city's transit datasets CC BY 4.0
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
Both records filed by Warsaw City Hall, for tram positions and for public-transport timetables, carry the licence name 'CC BY 4.0'.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. dane.gov.pl — catalogue record 'Lokalizacja pojazdów Tramwajów Warszawskich' (Urząd m.st. Warszawy)
  2. dane.gov.pl — catalogue record 'Rozkład jazdy komunikacji publicznej' (Urząd m.st. Warszawy)
Claim 13 clm-db118f97fcb07968 descriptive
gives 'Other (Public Domain)' as the licence description in the same record
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The same records carry the licence description 'Other (Public Domain)' next to the CC BY 4.0 name.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. dane.gov.pl — catalogue record 'Lokalizacja pojazdów Tramwajów Warszawskich' (Urząd m.st. Warszawy)
  2. dane.gov.pl — catalogue record 'Rozkład jazdy komunikacji publicznej' (Urząd m.st. Warszawy)
Claim 14 clm-fda4cea7dd623e27 descriptive
points to the city's own terms of use
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Each record's description says the terms of use for the data are available on api.um.warszawa.pl.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. dane.gov.pl — catalogue record 'Lokalizacja pojazdów Tramwajów Warszawskich' (Urząd m.st. Warszawy)
  2. dane.gov.pl — catalogue record 'Rozkład jazdy komunikacji publicznej' (Urząd m.st. Warszawy)
Claim 15 clm-ac4f22bdff983d7e descriptive
the city told a European programme it shares data without legal restrictions
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The city's good-practice entry lists 'making available without legal restrictions' among the platform's architecture principles.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Interreg Europe — Good practice: Open data in the Warsaw way (20 Aug 2024)
Claim 16 clm-65aecea78037ddf8 quantitative
a 2018 university thesis
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The 2018 Warsaw University of Technology thesis states that reusers must give the date of creation and the source, i.e. Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Warsaw University of Technology — Bondarzewska, bachelor's thesis on tram-delay notifications (2018)
Claim 17 clm-7eaf522c5e4812d8 descriptive
the developer of the Warsaw GTFS feeds, read the terms as requiring credit to Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa with a date
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The developer states that the City Hall requires credit naming Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa, the data download date and a link to api.um.warszawa.pl; the thesis reads the same terms as requiring the date of creation and the source.
Caveat
Both are readings by reusers; the city's own terms text is not among the sources.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. mkuran.pl — GTFS feeds: Warszawski Transport Publiczny (ZTM Warszawa)
  2. Warsaw University of Technology — Bondarzewska, bachelor's thesis on tram-delay notifications (2018)

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

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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
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
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Funding description
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Cost
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Ownership
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Decision rights
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Exit conditions
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8 source dossiers

Toportal — Warszawa. Dane po warszawsku (republished city press release, 22 Jun 2022) toportal.pl · 6 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-4c0918fa2968146d
Publisher
Name not classified · toportal.pl
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2022-06-22
Updated
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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.

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Claims linked
dane.gov.pl — catalogue record 'Lokalizacja pojazdów Tramwajów Warszawskich' (Urząd m.st. Warszawy) api.dane.gov.pl · 4 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-bf124e09aab95477
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
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
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.

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Claims linked
dane.gov.pl — catalogue record 'Rozkład jazdy komunikacji publicznej' (Urząd m.st. Warszawy) api.dane.gov.pl · 3 linked claims

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Stable source ID
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
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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Locator
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.

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Claims linked
Interreg Europe — Good practice: Open data in the Warsaw way (20 Aug 2024) interregeurope.eu · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-099eca9abd25d24b
Publisher
Name not classified · interregeurope.eu
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2024-08-20
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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No local capture recorded
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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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Claims linked
Warsaw University of Technology — Bondarzewska, bachelor's thesis on tram-delay notifications (2018) ia.pw.edu.pl · 3 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-049cde5bbc346b76
Publisher
Name not classified · ia.pw.edu.pl
Type / language
pdf · language not classified
Published
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Updated
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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

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.

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Claims linked
mkuran.pl — GTFS feeds: Warszawski Transport Publiczny (ZTM Warszawa) mkuran.pl · 4 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-7070bfa09ae70b19
Publisher
Name not classified · mkuran.pl
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
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Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-10-17
Dossier created
2026-10-17
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Locator
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.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
WarsawGTFS — project README (GitHub) raw.githubusercontent.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-80027485faae021d
Publisher
Name not classified · raw.githubusercontent.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-10-17
Dossier created
2026-10-17
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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Locator
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.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Warszawa 19115 — Dane po warszawsku warszawa19115.pl · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-980abb36cbf4629f
Publisher
Name not classified · warszawa19115.pl
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
2026-04-21
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-10-17
Dossier created
2026-10-17
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
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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Known limits of this file
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.