[OSM-talk] Partners sought for cycle routing project

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> The UK is also setting out on creating data for a cycle journey  
> planner
> using a mixture of professionally and community collected data.

So this is a government-funded project?

> A number of people with OSM experience were involved in setting the  
> data
> standard and some good ideas from OSM have got into it and it will be
> reasonably straightforward to convert between the UK standard and  
> the OSM
> model.

This is interesting but I thought it very impressive of the Munich  
guys to actually embrace the OSM model and commit themselves to  
working with that, instead of creating *another* data model. I'd  
rather encourage them to go the OSM way than to do something else.

Unfortunately they have just called me and said they won't make this  
year's deadline, so any results are even farther away than originally  
thought.

Still, my inquiry has resulted in some very interesting feedback  
(including your message) and since this information wasn't available  
on the existing OSM lists before this leads me to think we might have  
use for an extra cycle-related mailing list? Unless there's a non-OSM  
list already that can be used?

> I also think the Department for Transport in the UK may also be  
> interested
> in what is being proposed. Can I suggest you let your local people  
> see the
> UK standards documents.

I'll do that definitely. But what exactly is the plan with the UK  
standard in relation to OSM data? Is the idea to create a complex  
model that uses different data sources without creating a "derived  
database"?

Bye
Frederik

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