Folks, I'm currently working on a project to collect data on the location of UK payphones. There are a few projects around the world that collect payphone data but I have only found a commercial one in the UK.
It has occured to me that some of the data collected, namely the coordinates of the payphone would be useful to the OSM and the postcode with coordinations would be useful to freethepostcode. I will speak to the OSM developers about the possibility of importing the data into the OSM and the freethepostcode maintainers about the postcode data. I am wrting to OSM-UK to ask if any of the UK OSM contributors would be interested in helping gather payphone data? More information can be found here: http://payphonedb.bobsbasement.co.uk It's fairly wiki oriented, the idea being that anyone can add and modify phone and the database keeps a history of edits. There's about 20 phones in there at the moment and members of Bob's Basements are doing some collecting. The database/frontend stuff is still under development, so any issues, please report them. If anyone is planning to add a reasonable amount of data, please contact me for a userID for the site. Although you can add annonymously, it makes things a bit easier if a registered user adds them. Any comments/issues/etc, please email me or lookout for BOfH in #bobsbasement on irc.hackervoice.co.uk Thanks for your time. Regards, BOfH. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
