Currently openbusmap.org is a quick hack using an iframe to the original site.
This means that if you click permalink the permalink will open in that frame.
If you open in a new tab/window from that link, you'll get a permalink.
Shaun
On 16 Mar 2010, at 22:05, Richard Mann wrote:
I tried to supply a lat lon and failed dismally. I find German rail
services fascinating, but I suspect I may be in a minority for
openbusmap.org users. Is that easy to fix (being able to supply a
lat/lon, maybe even generating an openbusmap.org permalink)?
Cyclists may also like to ponder whether a good bus service actually
does them quite a few favours, even if they don't use it themselves.
Certainly has here in Oxford.
Richard
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote:
The cycle map and regular chatter have seen coverage blossom. Obviously bus
stops aren't as interesting to fellow OSM nutters as cycle routes; and the
cycle map was an early mover and got onto the front page of the main web
site. But can't we make a bit more of an effort to push this across the GB
community?
:-) I sallied forth on this issue at WhereCampEU - topics of how to
improve the public transit data in OSM came up a surprising number of
times on Saturday.
Step One: Register a better domain name for people who can't remember
how to type the double-dots in http://www.öpnvkarte.de/ . Et voila,
now we have http://openbusmap.org thanks to Shaun.
Step Two: Have a (UK?) public transport hack-weekend. Peter Miller
offered to sponsor this at said WhereCampEU, so that just needs
organising.
Step Three: Good editor support. Potlatch2 already supports things
like NAPTAN cardinal compass directions. There's more to do on that
front...
That's a start, and IMHO doing what the cyclemap did (i.e. provide a
compelling end-use) does as much as YAOSMIT (that's Yet Another OSM
Inspection Tool). The tools have their place, but only for the most
hard-core contributors. I see contributors as progressing through the
following stages, where only a small proportion ever make it to the
next stage:
1) Not interested or aware of the subject in question
2) Liking an end-use of the subject (e.g. opencyclemap.org, openbusmap.org)
3) Fiddling with the data in places that's important to them
4) Getting interested in wider QA of the data using inspection tools
I think we need to support 2 and 3 to get a much larger number of
people involved in buses etc in the UK.
Cheers,
Andy
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