[OSM-talk] travel-time-maps

[Tom Carden]

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On 17/01/2008, Tom Carden <tom at tom-carden.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> This is something I know a little bit about.  I've CC'd the
> mysociety-maps list too so they know that other people are still
> thinking about this.
>
> You can join that list here:
> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/maps
>
> On 17/01/2008, Greg <noh.way.jose at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> > I have a proposition that I'd like to discuss for open mapping. It's not my
> > idea originally but Chris Lightfoot's (the late genius of social computing
> > projects). One of his projects was undertaken a while back for the UK's
> > Department of Transport but seems to have languished unused ever since.
> >
> > The project can be found here:
> > http://www.mysociety.org/2006/travel-time-maps/index.php#examples
> >
>
> Happily I can inform you that this work has recently been picked up again.
>
> I have recently been helping mysociety with the presentation of their
> latest data (I've also had assistance from Nick at ZXV).  I'm not sure
> exactly when the updated maps will launch but suffice to say *WATCH
> THIS SPACE*.
>
> > It strikes me that this kind of journey time contours map has great value,
> > especially if it relies on genuine travel data from motivated participants. I
> > could imagine an open source solution using a mobile/GPS combo being used to
> > show real-time travel time data - where the user can change the time base for
> > a running average (from 'this hour' to 'this year')
> >
> > I hope I'm not revisiting a topic that has been done to death in this forum -
> > I couldn't find anything with a fairly cursory search.
>
> Not at all.
>
> >
> > Let me know what you think.
>
> I suspect for the parts of the world already well-covered by OSM, work
> on routing and travel times could begin NOW (and already has, I
> think).  But my favourite part of the mysociety work is the fact that
> it concentrates on public transport - that's a trickier proposition.
>
> Best,
>
> Tom.
>