[OSM-talk] Wikipedia articles for Sustrans routes and other OSM features

[Peter Miller]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Allan [mailto:gravitystorm at gmail.com]
> Sent: 07 November 2007 18:35
> To: Peter Miller
> Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia articles for Sustrans routes and other
> OSM features
> 
> On Nov 4, 2007 11:18 AM, Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
> 
> > Btw, Sustrans are putting a message out to all their rangers telling
> them
> > about OpenStreetMap, Gravitystorm, the wikipedia articles and also the
> > flickr group and encouraging them to get involved.
> 
> This is really cool Peter, and thanks for working to expand the
> community! If we were to get even just one or two Sustrans rangers who
> are as enthusiastic as Gregory Williams (have a look at Kent for those
> who want to see his work) then we'll be done in no time.
>

I think it's just the virtuous circle of success leading to success. The
fact is that Sustrans currently spend a lot of money to produce some pretty
poor mapping and the Sustrans network itself is developing fast and it
therefore makes a lot of sense for their people to use wikipedia and OSM to
keep everyone up to date with what is happening.
 
> I've also been talking with a couple of other cycle campaigns who are
> interested in using the cycle tiles to replace their google tiles with
> OSM tiles (whether mine or other custom ones). Unfortunately I don't
> know much about either the Google API or how feature-complete
> Openlayers etc are (I do mapping, and tiles, but none of this fancy
> javascript stuff!). If anyone is looking for a weekend project,
> putting together a howto aimed at a small website wanting to do the
> migration would be great. For example, they might have 20 push-pins
> and 15 routes drawn over their Google Map -  how would they do the
> same with an OSM-based stack?
> 

I think if we concentrate on getting good data then lots of applications
will emerge. The stumbling block has always been the data. Btw, my company
is using Open Layers (with Navteq at present) and find it easy to work with
and I would encourage other people to play with it. 

Peter


> Cheers,
> Andy