[Talk-GB] Onward travel posters

[Richard Fairhurst]

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

cheers
Richard



--
View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Onward-travel-posters-tp6461416p6461826.html
Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com.