That's a good idea, I'm pretty sure a good number of the modern trains use GPS as confirmation they're allowed to open their doors, so they must contain some of the kit to do it.
2009/9/28 John McKerrell <[email protected]>: > Hi > > Has anyone ever approached Virgin to get GPS traces from their trains? > Would it be worth asking or do we have enough coverage? Richard Baker > [1] is "General Manager for Virgin Trains Liverpool, N Wales & Chester > to London" and is happy to receive emails so if we think it's worth > asking I will go ahead and do so. I just asked him about getting the > trains to update http://mapme.at/ with their current positions and > he's just told me it would be too much work, but supplying us with a > day's worth of existing traces (perhaps with the time "anonymised") > should be less effort than the constantly updated stream I was > originally asking for. > > Anyway, opinions appreciated. > > John > > [1] - http://twitter.com/richard_baker > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
