Hi, In light of the Transparency Strategy at https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/policy/transparency, I hope to get the tube data over and done with: in our case we want it because we want to improve journey planning. Here’s the extract of my response:
In my opinion, it would be nice to publicise accurate route alignments of tube lines to the public domain and OpenStreetMap, even if it is just the tracks that the tube lines use, because it is already possible to map out national rail lines from publicly available aerial imagery,* like all of the North London line. I understand your security concerns, but the release of the accurate route alignments is no different to what is already easily mappable for National Rail services. A majority of users of accurate route data would want either want to use it for improving navigation and accessibility, or build rail simulator routes to recreate historical eras. *Editor’s note: i.e. Bing/MapBox and other compatible imagery in our case. -- Antje _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
