[Talk-us] School bus routes?

[Richard Welty]

On 4/10/11 7:05 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
> At 2011-04-10 12:43, Richard Welty wrote:
>
>>  i worry about importing such data then
>> failing to maintain it. it's very subject to bit rot.
>
> At the yearly level, true of any temporal data that we 
> enthusiastically map, like tenants of strip malls*, business opening 
> hours, speed limits, and turn restrictions.
>
> It just seems like OSM is well-suited for use by schools. They have to 
> maintain data like bus routes, campus maps, etc., it's to both their 
> and their communities' advantage to make it free and accessible, and 
> it spreads the gospel of OSM.
>
>
> *The stats on new small business failures are truly depressing.
i'm thinking that there's a case here for the core+layers model
we've occasionally talked about. the data is worthwhile, but maybe not
good for the core.

and yes, core+layers could logically apply to POI data if we wanted
to go that way.

richard