I am not considering air travel on a national level, international (possibly even inter-continental) routing is an area I'd like to see developed :)
On 03/06/2009, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas Wood wrote: >> 2009/6/2 Sebastian Schwarz <[email protected]>: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Well, I have been en-route the last days and thus did not have time to >>> respond to any of the numerous mails covering almost all aspects of >>> the new proposal relating to public transport. But I see the >>> discussion sort of loosing sight of the mappers. From my point of >>> view, we should find a good compromise which primarily serves the >>> mappers and not the CEN. So, the schema should not be as compliant as >>> possible to the standards but as good as possible for the mappers - >>> provided with a reasonable part of standard compliance, of course. We >>> do not want to model Heathrow Airport (apart from that, airports have >>> never been part of the proposal!) but we want to start with the bus >>> station around the corner! >> >> But by it's nature as the foundation of how transportation stop areas >> are represented in OSM, then airports are important as a higher tier >> of transportation. > > Depends on the part of the world. If you're in the US, the pain in the > ass, time required and sheer expense associated with air travel starts > making Amtrak, VIARail and booking rooms on transoceanic cargo ships > starts looking like a real attractive option regardless of the distance, > relegating air travel to a more useless position than the US NCN... > > > > -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
