[OSM-newbies] Public transport maps

[Thomas Meller]

Maybe you'll find something interesting here:

http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/karto/
http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/karto/97_PDF.neis.zipf.AAS.Agile07.pdf
http://data.giub.uni-bonn.de/openrouteservice/info.php
http://openrouteservice.org/

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> Datum: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:44:25 +0200 (CEST)
> Von: Lucio Chiappetti <lucio at lambrate.inaf.it>
> An: Openstreet list <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
> Betreff: [OSM-newbies] Public transport maps

> I got notice of the "Open Street Map" project from the press (yes ... 
> paper newspapers :-)) and I wonder whether it could be useful for the 
> purpose described below.
> 
> I'm a member of a Public Transport Users Committee, which in the near 
> future is going to present a contribution to a meeting on metropolitan 
> cities sponsored by some local city councillors.
> 
> The material I'm looking for (and which I would like to include in a latex
> beamer presentation) is the following :
> 
>    a) (coarse) maps of a number of large cities in Europe. At least Milan,
>       Paris, London, Munich and Frankfurt.
>    b) maps of urban public transport lines, with particular regard on
>       railways, i.e. underground / metro / U-Bahn and local commuter
>       railways, RER, S-Bahn
>    c) maps of the metropolitan area administrative boundaries
> 
> Ideally all the material should be on the same scale, or be scalable to a 
> common scale. Also the material (b) and (c) should possibly be available 
> in a "vector" form instead of an image ... what I intend to do is overlay 
> the administrative boundaries and the metro/rail routes onto the main maps
> (a), and compare different cities by overlay.
> 
> So far I've been able to deal with the main maps (a), using xv to capture 
> some Google maps in gif/jpg, and using gimp to adjust them to a coarse 
> common scale, but it seems very difficult to find the (b) and (c) 
> material.
> 
> Does the Open Street Map project have the material described above 
> available for retrieval in some documented format ?
> 
> I am no GIS expert at all, and do not have familiarity with GIS formats, 
> nor much familiarity with "display" image formats like gif, jpg, png 
> (except for some occasional use of xv or gimp) however I'm a "programming 
> astrophysicist". In astronomy we use routinely our own FITS binary format 
> for images and tables (I'm actually a member of the International 
> Astronomical Union FITS Working Group), and that includes a 
> potentially-sophisticated WCS (World Coordinate System) which should 
> support most common cartographic projections. Also I do not think I'd need
> very accurate projections for the purposes illustrated above. So I believe
> I could deal with data in a documented format ... having data for several 
> cities in an uniform format, whatever it be, will already be very useful !
> 
> Can you please point me to links where I can find the necessary 
> information ?
> 
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> 
> I thank in advance everybody who will reply.
> 
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