In message <[email protected]> Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote:
> Peter J Stoner wrote: >> Thank you for the photo. It is the first of the new posters I >> have seen so it has helped me to check the Traveline and >> NextBuses references! >:) They're good posters, I like them (though the cartography is a bit... > utilitarian, shall we say?). >> This use of OSM shows the value of the footpaths to public >> transport information and the great work done by those who survey... >> but more use like this does need to have most of the roads on to be >> credible. > At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, it is possible to make maps > out of OS OpenData without importing it into OSM first! > At the risk of stating the > slightly-less-blindingly-but-still-with-severe-dangers-to-your-sight > obvious, you can combine OS OpenData with OSM footpaths, and get the best of > both worlds. Hard (though not impossible) for routing, but trivial for > cartography. Luke Smith at Grough has done this to staggeringly good effect: > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2011-March/011105.html > http://www.grough.co.uk/lib/documents/tmp/lss/tq28.jpg > http://www.grough.co.uk/lib/documents/tmp/lss/nn17.jpg I hope my eyesight is not quite as bad as you suggest. Good as the examples are, I would not want to lose the changes that OSM have made to the road network. It is useful to be able to get road details right that affect public transport. -- Peter J Stoner UK coordinator Traveline _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
