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OpenVan vs Transport for Paris, France

OpenVan

OpenVan.camp publishes a curated read-only OpenAPI schema for vanlife/RV travel planning: fuel prices by country, currency rates, a VanBasket food-cost index, VanSky weather-suitability scores, plus vanlife news stories and events. No authentication is required and the schema is discoverable at the site's `.well-known/openapi.json`; requests are capped at 120/minute per IP and the data is CC BY 4.0 licensed.

Transport for Paris, France

RATP's own open-data catalog (separate from the region-wide Île-de-France Mobilités PRIM portal), an Opendatasoft-hosted Explore API. Its 26 datasets cover per-station air quality readings, annual station entry-traffic counts, and points of interest such as defibrillators, water fountains, public toilets, and licensed nearby shops for the Paris metro, RER, tram, and bus network. No accessibility or network-reference dataset is published. Public dataset reads work anonymously with no key over the v2.1 Explore API.

OpenVanTransport for Paris, France
AuthenticationNoneNone
Pricingfreefree
FormatsJSONJSON, CSV, GeoJSON
CORSyesyes
HTTPSYesYes

Transport for Paris, France supports 3 response formats, while OpenVan offers fewer — pick Transport for Paris, France for more integration flexibility.

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