I tried to supply a lat & lon and failed dismally. I find German rail services fascinating, but I suspect I may be in a minority for openbusmap.org users. Is that easy to fix (being able to supply a lat/lon, maybe even generating an openbusmap.org permalink)?
Cyclists may also like to ponder whether a good bus service actually does them quite a few favours, even if they don't use it themselves. Certainly has here in Oxford. Richard On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
