[OSM-talk] London Underground stations?

Nick Black nickblack1 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 3 16:24:39 BST 2006


Why not combine some sort of a tube stop collection fest with the OSM 2nd
Anniversary/birthday party?  If there are enough people we could split into
a few groups and nail the cirlcle line (for example) in a couple of hours?
 The beer would taste even sweeter if we had collected some data before -
kind of like going to the gym and then really really enjoying the take away
pizza ;-).

Nick

On 7/3/06, Andy Robinson <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I have contacts with both Metronet and Tube Lines. I'll ask if there is
> any
> way they will give us access to their out-of-copyright data. They have a
> lot
> of it.
>
> Andy Robinson
> Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
> >bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Tom Carden
> >Sent: 03 July 2006 14:01
> >To: SteveC
> >Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] London Underground stations?
> >
> >On 03/07/06, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> >> * @ 03/07/06 01:24:57 PM noodles at earth.li wrote:
> >> > it
> >> > occurred to me that OSM is an ideal method of recording tube station
> >> > locations (and probably even a large amount of track given it's above
> >> > ground). Is anyone working on this already?
> >>
> >> Yeah, and Tom'll have lots to say on this.
> >>
> >
> >Well, not lots but some!  AFAIK the things that have been subject to
> >take-downs are things that were using modified official tube maps or
> >using the tube roundel trademark in some way.  I'm not in favour of it
> >and it's crappy that the underground thinks this is worth pursuing in
> >a serious way, but it's kind of understandable.
> >
> >> I started collecting locations on my osm wiki user page when I found
> out
> >> the wikicommons data is all derived from google maps.
> >>
> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:Steve
> >>
> >
> >My own experiments were all with the wikicommons data set, and I was
> >really disappointed to find it was traced from Google Maps.
> >
> >A two-pronged approach is in order:
> >* as Steve already is, collect the data ourselves using GPS, out of
> >copyright maps and (appropriately licensed) satellite and aerial
> >photography.  This could probably be completed in a day by a few
> >dedicated individuals!
> >* lobby for a freely available official data set including station
> >locations, travel times, connectivity, interchange times, etc. since I
> >don't think it can hurt TfL for its customers to make their own maps.
> >
> >Longer term, like Richard I would like to see a geodata license which
> >expressly permits geocoding of isolated points of interest.
> ><far-off-fantasy>If Google and others were to adopt this license it
> >would be a huge weight off a lot of people's minds and make the status
> >of several large Google-Maps derived databases
> >unambiguous</far-off-fantasy>.  Here's hoping.
> >
> >But yes, in the mean-time please start collecting it.  Nick, does your
> >new renderer have an icon for tube stops, and a suggested node tag for
> >tube stop POIs?
> >
> >Tom.
> >
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