Ah, I hadn't seen http://openbusmap.org/ / http://www.öpnvkarte.de/<http://www.xn--pnvkarte-m4a.de/>before. It looks cool and I sometimes want to know the route the buses take (in a non-schematic way). Just a quick look of my parents place and I've spotted two routes that are slightly off.
On 16 March 2010 16:10, Shaun McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/<http://www.xn--pnvkarte-m4a.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 > -- Gregory [email protected] http://www.livingwithdragons.com
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