Re: [Talk-transit] Vertical Levels (Layers) versus Altitude for stations

2009-09-04 Thread Frankie Roberto
Hi Peter, good stuff, and I agree with your view that we should tag the human understandable levels. I'm not aware how how precisely these map to the layers tag (I'd always assumed that this was a hint to the renderer rather that conveying semantic information), however I see how that would work.

Re: [Talk-transit] Monorails

2009-09-04 Thread Frankie Roberto
2009/9/4 Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com Fulfilling a very small niche, I've added a (very short) page for monorails (in the UK): http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_monorails we should build more monorails so we can map more monorails ... +1 :-) The page for the tag

[Talk-transit] Vertical Levels (Layers) versus Altitude for stations

2009-09-04 Thread Peter Miller
In the absence of a vast building program of new monorails[1] as proposed by Bill Ricker, I am beginning to think about mapping some of the more complex transport interchanges here in the UK. I am currently adding platforms, walkways and steps to the simpler stations that I know and am

Re: [Talk-transit] Vertical Levels (Layers) versus Altitude for stations

2009-09-04 Thread Christoph Boehme
Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: We would also need to consider slope, steps and lifts between layers and the situation where a lift only connects some layers but not all of them. A lift is currently represented as a single node because it is vertical. How does one indicate

Re: [Talk-transit] Vertical Levels (Layers) versus Altitude forstations

2009-09-04 Thread Peter Miller
On 4 Sep 2009, at 09:25, Christoph Boehme wrote: Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: We would also need to consider slope, steps and lifts between layers and the situation where a lift only connects some layers but not all of them. A lift is currently represented as a single node

[Talk-transit] Public Transport routing

2009-09-04 Thread Frankie Roberto
Hi all, I just added a new introduction to the Public Transport page ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport), trying to give an overview of what public transport is and why it should be added to OSM. Whilst doing this, I had a quick play with Google's Public Transit map service,

Re: [Talk-transit] Public Transport routing

2009-09-04 Thread Péter Connell
Google Transit draws from the NCSD - National Coach Services Database - which comes in with the regional traveline data. I suspect ATOC don't want to get their data on google maps because they need the advertising revenue but I might be wrong about that. Frankie Roberto wrote: Hi all, I

Re: [Talk-transit] Public Transport routing

2009-09-04 Thread Peter J Stoner
In message on 4 Sep 2009, Frankie Roberto wrote: The question for me is: could OSM fill in this 'gap' of functionality that Google Transit has? There's an old conversation at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Train_routing about whether train routing could work without a timetable.

Re: [Talk-transit] Monorails

2009-09-04 Thread Frankie Roberto
2009/9/4 Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com Um, I've forgotten which way round it goes! (Desperately trying to remember, or at least Google the answer)... the angle of mantenance spur tells ... do they back onto or off of the main-line ? Um? I suspect that we ought to add