Stuart,
Nice to see it being used, and credited. I shall look forward to using
it more often.
Regards
Nick
(Tallguy)
On 15/09/14 15:53, Stuart Reynolds wrote:
Jerry,
Many thanks for your compliments - we’ve worked hard to integrate the
OSM data into our routing algorithms. Some things are still causing us
the odd problem, but on the whole we’ve been very pleased and it is a
step change in quality from the old Navteq data.
I don’t know which website you have been using, but traveline is
regional and not all of the regions are using the same GIS or system
supplier. The regions currently using OSM are East & West Midlands,
South West, East Anglia and South East. All use the same data set,
which covers the whole of Great Britain, but with slightly differing
interfaces.
I was going to send this just to you, but thought that others might
like to see the reply re: the PDF maps. We know that they don’t look
especially good at the moment, and that is an area that we have yet to
fully re-configure. The colours/displays and what features are shown
is not entirely as we want them to be. That’s one task that is down to
me to do shortly!
There are other aspects of your email that I wanted to comment on, but
those I WILL email direct, as they are all to do with the system and
timetable data, and nothing at all to do OSM.
Regards,
Stuart Reynolds
For traveline south east & anglia
*From:*SK53 [mailto:sk53....@gmail.com]
*Sent:* 15 September 2014 3:00 PM
*To:* Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org
*Subject:* [Talk-GB] OSM on Traveline website
Over the weekend I made a fair bit of use of the traveline website for
planning journeys in the Greater Manchester and Sheffield areas.
Something which was relatively new to me was OSM maps appearing under
the local map button. These show pedestrian routes between various
public transport modes, and can be saved as PDFs
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/e0t9hvn9gkqajj3/uk_5416EC7B8.pdf?dl=0>
(although I don't find the PDF's as readable as the on-line versions
which use 'traditional' Mapnik style with a very clear overlay of bus
stops and routing info).
As one of my destinations was best reached by a number of different
buses with very different routes, the provision of walking routes
through parks & a nature reserve. In fact I wished I'd used this
facility more as it would have meant I'd have caught an earlier bus in
Sheffield: and I could have stored some of the PDF plans on the phone
to double check exactly where the bus stops where situated. (I may
have also been properly alerted that the tram network in Manchester
was shut down on Saturday).
All-in-all its a very useful improvement to the Traveline site, and I
felt a great deal of satisfaction that it was OSM data delivered
through a 3rd party site. Although I've been aware of traveline's
activity with OSM, I'd no idea that I'd find it so useful.
Many thanks,
Jerry
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