Tag: opengeodata

OSM relicensing

The ideal situation would be that the ODC licences are suitable, and that not just the Foundation, but everyone involved in OSM agrees. If that’s the case, then we can publish the new terms without significant loss of existing data. If there are major objections, of course, we will either withdraw the proposal entirely, or weigh up the dangers of retaining the existing licence against the potential withdrawal of data. We are hopeful that the ODC licences are sufficiently in tune with the “spirit of OpenStreetMap” that this will not arise, but need to be alert to the possibility.

if they did not have such an inept license, many things would be possible. good luck with the relicensing dudes

Neighborhood Boundaries

The Zillow data team has created a database of 7000 neighborhood boundaries in the largest cities in the US And we’d like to share them with you! We’re sharing these neighborhoods under a Creative Commons license to allow people to use and contribute to our growing database.

nice. i wonder how accurate?

Transit stops on Garmin

One of the biggest benefits of transit agencies making their raw schedule data publicly available, as TriMet and others have done, is that riders are free to do interesting things with the information that the agency itself might not have thought of or have taken the time to do themselves. Case in point: Brett Warden in Portland is using TriMet’s GTFS feed to create a POI (points of interest) file for his dashboard-mounted GPS.

nice open geodata example

OSM NL donation

Automotive Navigation Data (AND) is a leading provider of location, routing, mapping and address management are donating a street network of the entire Netherlands. Yes, an entire country. This is basically phenomenal.

major road networks in india and china, too. this is starting to feel like wikipedia in 2002. now if only they did not have such a huge mess on the backend side.

Maps API Reverse Geocoder

are we encouraging this now? interesting

OGC standardizing KML

given my disdain for the closed nature of the OGC, this will be interesting to watch.
2007-08-07: if you want to track the ongoing ogc kml work, this tag is a good bet.

State Of The Map

OSM is having a conference in manchester

osmgoogleearth

xslt to turn openstreetmap data into kml

Yahoo! aerial imagery in OSM

OpenGeoData hmm, y! must have found a loophole to allow OSM to reverse-engineer streets from their aerial imagery (or they will hear from teleatlas soon)

UK Transit Data Standards

NaPTAN is the directory of National Public Transport Access Nodes – it records the location & details of public transport access nodes including 330k bus stops; plus airports, rail & coach stations, ferry terminals, tram stops and more.

NPTG is the National Public Transport Gazetteer – holds the location, names & relationships of 45k localities.

JourneyWeb is the protocol that Journey Planners use to communicate. For information on the protocol click here. It’s also the name of the web site used for exchanging public transport data, maintained by Thales, who also provide assistance to Local Authorities and other information suppliers via email and a phone helpdesk. For data click here.

TransXChange is the standard for exchanging bus schedules and related data. It is used in the electronic registration of bus routes and for the exchange of bus routes between systems such as Journey Planners.

TransModel is the European reference data model for use in designing information systems for public transport.

a bit more extensive than the ones proposed by el goog