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Live map on First Great Western entertainment carriages

On some longer distance First Great Western trains they have an entertainment carriage in coach D. This is the Live map feature which attributes CloudMade maps that highlight the rail lines. The attribution fades after a few seconds.

Published October 2, 2011
Categorised as Creative Commons, Maps, OpenStreetMap, travel

Open Source Mapping

Today I came across mapping wiki style. OpenStreetMap aims to provide free geographic data of the whole world.The current problems with most maps is that they are have copyright on them, and they have special easter eggs or gotchas to determine copying of the maps. This is a problem for projects that need to be… Continue reading Open Source Mapping

Published March 25, 2007
Categorised as Creative Commons, Cycling, Maps, Open Source

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