[OSM-talk] Sustran map out of use

[Andy Robinson]

On 14/12/2007, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2007 10:58 AM, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > The Sustran map ( http://www.sustrans.co.uk/default.asp?sID=1090921186341 )
> > is currently replaced with the following message:
> >
> > "Sorry, online mapping is temporarily unavailable because we are
> > experiencing such a high number of website visitors following our Connect2
> > win. We will restore the maps at the earliest opportunity. Thanks for being
> > patient."


Andy> >
> > Well they're online map is slowly useless on a normal day, is this an
> > opportunity for them to trial linking to gravitystorm's OSM map? (assuming
> > it could cope with the Connect2 load)
>
> Feel free to suggest it to them - you're my "man on the inside".
> Although the OSM cycle map is incomplete in many areas, maybe they'll
> recognise it as better than nothing (never mind being a better
> long-term plan anyway).
>
> I've got 3Tb of monthly bandwidth to burn, so I'd certainly not mind
> them using some of it over the next few weeks.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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The feedback from Connect2 a couple of days ago was that they had no
intention of changing their mapping supply but that was was before
this outage. I think the issue will be that they don't appear to be
doing the maps themselves. Its one of their systrans partners,
presumably an OS partner.

Really if they have to stick with OS/OS partner it might be an
argument for an implementation of the new OS openspace, though they
would need an agreement regarding tile delivery since the current
openspace usage is limited to 30,000 tiles per calender day.

I guess we keep up the sustained pressure by demonstrating what we can
do. I'm sure though that they will have difficulty moving away from
the status quo unless we can demonstrate at least the same level of
mapping coverage. Another issue might be that their NCN routes are
currently almost certainly derived from OS mapping products.

Cheers
-- 
Andy Robinson