Currently openbusmap.org is a quick hack using an iframe to the original site. This means that if you click permalink the permalink will open in that frame. If you open in a new tab/window from that link, you'll get a permalink.
Shaun On 16 Mar 2010, at 22:05, Richard Mann wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
