[OSM-talk] London Underground stations?

Jo Walsh jo at frot.org
Wed Jul 5 20:27:31 BST 2006


On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 01:29:48PM +0100, SteveC wrote:
> > to see a bunch of my friends now actually getting round to buying GPS
> > units so they can join in, having been talking about it for ages) I got
> > into a discussion about the alternative London tube maps - eg the one
> > that shows which stations are actually as quick or quicker to walk
> > between. These have been subjected to take down notices by LUL, but 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?

Huh. I thought LUL - or what was left of it after the selloff to Tube
Lines / Metronet - was subsumed by Transport For London [0]. 
Have TfL have really been issuing takedowns? On what grounds? Can you
dig out references for this? To hear the talk on mysociety's maps list,
at least the Department for Transport have been approaching open data / 
web mapping projects with some interest. [1]
  
> 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

I have an old model of the tube stops. It was web-scraped and postcode 
geocoded from a non-free source and i know that some of the stops are way out -
Stratford for example was a few hundred metres off. YMMV on being wary
of distribution but it might be useful to play with if you just want
to experiment. I uploaded a goodish stretch of the DLR to OSM last
year but never annotated it. http://space.frot.org/rdf/tube_model2.rdf


jo

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUL
[1]http://www.mysociety.org/pipermail/mysociety-maps/2006-March/000088.html

 




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