Nice to meet you all at SOTM!
Peter Miller wrote: > OSM coverage of cycle demonstration towns is pretty good already and it > would be truly weird for the Cambridgeshire County Council to pay for > someone to survey Cambridge! As a resident of Cambridge, I can tell you that such mapping is already happening.. As with the other Cycling Demonstration Towns, this is apparently coming from the Cycling England budget rather than local taxation. I do not know how much money is involved for the first tranche of towns being surveyed. I believe the next round to do many more places involves EU Tender -level funds and that that process is at an advanced stage. I have suggested to a contact I have at Cycling England (a body I generally have a lot of respect for) that the data they are collecting into the CycleNetXChange "standard" be done in such a way that it is not OS-comingled until after the point it gets into that format. I understand from Peter Miller that the standard was written in such a way that the data collection could be undertaken without pollution by OS data. Peter - can you confirm? Whether or not CycleNetXChange -formatted data would be of use to OSM, I don't know myself. But I imagine it could be useful for other purposes, e.g. cycling groups knowing about cycle lane widths for campaigning purposes, etc. I would merely be interested in the principle that new data being collected at taxpayer expense be compatible with open data principles at the very least. Richard Mann wrote: > If I understood the cyclestreets people correctly, they've been > developing it using some funding from the Cycle Demonstration Towns > project, so maybe DfT are hedging their bets. As previously confirmed, there is no money going into the CycleStreets journey planner from the DfT / Cycling England. .. Funding from other sources is being investigated though! PS As this is my first posting to the list, thanks to all the mappers, who enable CycleStreets to exist! Martin, ** CycleStreets - For Cyclists, By Cyclists Developer, CycleStreets ** http://www.cyclestreets.net/ _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
