Thread: [FRC Blog] Event Results and API Data
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Re: [FRC Blog] Event Results and API Data
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Originally Posted by DareDad View Post
Greater than the FRC event API? That's pretty darned open. Anyone can take the data from the events and massage it and display it anyway they want. I myself have plans to work with it but no time yet.

Open source for the FMS is pretty silly. You cannot test and validate it without all of the specialized hardware required for a field and you cannot do any coding on the part that changes yearly (the scoring) without knowing the details of a game that's kept secret.
The scoring part isn't really the issue here; it seems to be data storage and transport that needs a lot of work. A properly designed system would let you work on all of that independent of the scoring components. And, as it's already been stated, the scoring components can still be released on kickoff for other individuals to review.

And no, the FRC event API is not open. It couldn't get any more closed. Public data != open-source software.
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