Peter, Most council's publish their gritting route data, many on their websites. Some time back I asked BCC if we could make use of their list and received a positive response. Its public information after all so I suspect most council's would not attempt to restrict any genuine use.
Cheers Andy >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:talk-gb- >[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Miller >Sent: 19 January 2010 6:20 PM >To: Brian Prangle >Cc: talk-gb OSM List (E-mail) >Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Gritting Routes > > >On 18 Jan 2010, at 09:42, Brian Prangle wrote: > > > Just to add to Andy's post: priority 3 routes are generally bus >routes; going back over roads already surveyed in this exercise, armed with >the data from Naptan cleared up a lot of no-name roads as well; we even >organised an impromptu tutorial and editing session where two new mappers >got going. > > > >Could you explain what your base information was, how you got hold of it >and on what license? > > >Thanks, > > >Peter > > > > Regards > > Brian > > > 2010/1/18 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) <[email protected]> > > > The West Mids folks have been busy over the last few days >adding all the > Birmingham gritting routes to OSM. We'll be adding the other >areas of the > west mids as we get them as well as the location of all the >grit bins. > > You can see the completed mapping for Birmingham on the mappa- >mercia website > here: > > "http://mappa-mercia.org/gritting- >map.shtml?zoom=11&lat=52.48004&lon=-1.8851 > 7&layers=BT <http://mappa-mercia.org/gritting- >map.shtml?zoom=11&lat=52.48004&lon=-1.8851%0A7&layers=BT> " > > BCC prioritises the gritting routes as 1, 2 or 3. Not all >councils appear to > provide their priority but basically in Birmingham the priority >1 routes are > principle highways (trunk), most priority 2 are other primary >or secondary > routes so it's not too difficult to see a likely priority >trend. > > With some more snow due in the midlands on Wednesday it's a >timely bit of > work. To follow activity subscribe to the > [email protected] mailing list. > > Cheers > > Andy > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
