[OSM-newbies] Public transport maps

[Thomas Wood]

I can reply giving details on London's coverage.
a) The street network is complete, but some areas are still low
detail, since they've not yet been fully surveyed on the ground.
b) The Underground/DLR/Tram lines are complete in London, as are the
rail lines AFAIK
c) There are some boundaries, where people have been bothered to walk
them, several boroughs have incomplete outlines, but the City of
London, the City of Westminster, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Islington,
Camden, Barnet, Enfield, Haringey, Hounslow and Sutton all appear
complete (apologies to any others that I've missed).

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Lucio Chiappetti
<lucio at lambrate.inaf.it> wrote:
> 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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>
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Regards,
Thomas Wood
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