Re: [Talk-GB] The DfT Cycle journey planner / CycleStreets

2009-07-15 Thread Richard Mann
Keeping the data available for anyone to use - good Preferring a monopoly of use of the data - bad If people can find funding (from wherever) to produce more than one cycle routing facility, I think that's a good thing. Maybe one of them will correctly identify the quiet route from west oxford

Re: [Talk-GB] The DfT Cycle journey planner / CycleStreets

2009-07-14 Thread Martin - CycleStreets
Nice to meet you all at SOTM! Peter Miller wrote: OSM coverage of cycle demonstration towns is pretty good already and it would be truly weird for the Cambridgeshire County Council to pay for someone to survey Cambridge! As a resident of Cambridge, I can tell you that such mapping is

Re: [Talk-GB] The DfT Cycle journey planner

2009-07-07 Thread Richard Mann
If I understood the cyclestreets people correctly, they've been developing it using some funding from the Cycle Demonstration Towns project, so maybe DfT are hedging their bets. Richard On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.comwrote: I notice that councils across

Re: [Talk-GB] The DfT Cycle journey planner

2009-07-07 Thread Peter Miller
On 7 Jul 2009, at 11:51, Richard Mann wrote: If I understood the cyclestreets people correctly, they've been developing it using some funding from the Cycle Demonstration Towns project, so maybe DfT are hedging their bets. Cycle Streets have just confirmed that they have not received

Re: [Talk-GB] The DfT Cycle journey planner

2009-07-07 Thread Gregory
On a side note re Darlington: I noticed this as a place good for a mapping party but I ran out of time before leaving the North East. If it still needs love in a year's time then I will organise an event there, but that is quite a while to wait. If someone was to organise something then you could