On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Tom Chance <[email protected]> wrote:
> The cycle map and regular chatter have seen coverage blossom. Obviously bus > stops aren't as interesting to fellow OSM nutters as cycle routes; and the > cycle map was an "early mover" and got onto the front page of the main web > site. But can't we make a bit more of an effort to push this across the GB > community? :-) I sallied forth on this issue at WhereCampEU - topics of how to improve the public transit data in OSM came up a surprising number of times on Saturday. Step One: Register a better domain name for people who can't remember how to type the double-dots in http://www.öpnvkarte.de/ . Et voila, now we have http://openbusmap.org thanks to Shaun. Step Two: Have a (UK?) public transport hack-weekend. Peter Miller offered to sponsor this at said WhereCampEU, so that just needs organising. Step Three: Good editor support. Potlatch2 already supports things like NAPTAN cardinal compass directions. There's more to do on that front... That's a start, and IMHO doing what the cyclemap did (i.e. provide a compelling end-use) does as much as YAOSMIT (that's Yet Another OSM Inspection Tool). The tools have their place, but only for the most hard-core contributors. I see contributors as progressing through the following stages, where only a small proportion ever make it to the next stage: 1) Not interested or aware of the subject in question 2) Liking an end-use of the subject (e.g. opencyclemap.org, openbusmap.org) 3) Fiddling with the data in places that's important to them 4) Getting interested in wider QA of the data using inspection tools I think we need to support 2 and 3 to get a much larger number of people involved in buses etc in the UK. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
