Some of us who also volunteer for Sustrans have an on-going dialogue with those in Sustrans who run the volunteer side. We also have good contact with the GIS personnel. But at the top management level and influencing policy within Sustrans they and we don't seem to have got very far regarding OSM to date.
Sustrans has provided us with data for reference. For instance I have all the millennium milepost data [1]. This was originally placed in their mapping against a 1:50k mapping and is thus very inaccurate. Also some councils did not install them where they expected. As a result it's a useful resource for checking (and obtaining the reference number and confirmation of casting type) but not for anything else. Have been looking with them at an OSM driven map for volunteer use (to improve social networking within the volunteer side of Sustrans) but that's dragging at the moment because it needs some coding time from stretched OSMers. But that tool would only internal facing and not a public facility. Cheers Andy [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_Kingdom_Sustrans_Milep osts From: Tom Chance [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 12 July 2012 11:25 To: Graham Stewart (GrahamS) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Google Maps using Sustrans Cycling data On 11 July 2012 16:22, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) <[email protected]> wrote: Has anyone from OSM approached Sustrans in the past? There were some attempts in the past, e.g. this threat from 2008: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2008-June/006463.html Has anyone made progress since? If we have no contacts, I know somebody working on a short contract as a Policy and Media Advisor, I could ask him if he could raise the idea of releasing data to OSM, and give us somebody senior to talk with. Regards, Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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