[Talk-GB] Onward travel posters

[Peter J Stoner]

In message <1307705780225-6461826.post at n2.nabble.com>
          Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

> 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

I hope my eyesight is not quite as bad as you suggest.  Good as the 
examples are, I would not want to lose the changes that OSM have made 
to the road network.  It is useful to be able to get road details 
right that affect public transport.



-- 
Peter J Stoner
UK coordinator
Traveline