On 5 Jun 2009, at 10:19, Tom Hughes wrote: > Peter Miller wrote: > >> Fyi, Joss (who works for ITO) is in the process of preparing a >> new OSM railway wiki page in his user area which lists lines and >> gives relations where they are available. >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:JossSmithson/UK_railways > > Joss's work had been noticed, mainly because there was some question > over where some of the data had come from. In the end we decided it > had probably from Wikipedia, although that does of course leave open > the question of how Wikipedia knows that the Hertford East Branch > line is SRS 05.03 ;-) >
Sure. Possibly this is something we should pick up on in talk-legal at some point and proper get a view from a proper lawyer. It is a bit of an anomaly that Wikipieda can cite sources and include facts from other places and that OSM can (probably) include information from Wikipedia but probably not (according to general opinion) cite non- wikipedia sources. We have taken the view that citing Wikipedia seems to be accepted so that it what we are doing. You may also notice that we are also putting significant effort into many transport related articles in Wikipedia (both rail and road) particularly for the East of England and intend to be providing images for use in those articles soon, so it is good if they match up. > Incidentally, looking at that just now I see that the relation for > that branch has been extended all the way down to Broxbourne station > rather than terminating at Broxbourne Junction where it joins the > main line and I'm wondering if that is the best thing to do? We took the decision to use wikipedia as a the reference for the extent of historic lines, so if the wikipedia article for the Ipswich to Ely line says that it goes all the way to Ipswich to Ely (even though the last section is also the Great Eastern Main Line) then that is what we have done. Happy for people to adjust it if we come to a general view that this is incorrect, but we are intending to produce pretty maps to go into those wikipedia article from OSM relations in due course and it is therefore convenient if the information matches. Regards, Peter > > > Tom > > -- > Tom Hughes ([email protected]) > http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
