Swindon as a day trip destination

[whole diary]

[grahame]

I was saddened as to how little information was available at the station ... or at the TIC^▸ (Tourist Information Centre) when I walked up the town.  Yet there's a lot to do.  Draft trifold ... initially doing a very short run (couple of dozen) for the West Wilts Rail User Group this weekend, but may produce some more / do a significant run.

http://atrebatia.info/swindonvisit.pdf

There's a serious sponsorship opportunity here; I do need to look at mapping licenses before I do anything more that personal use and for members of the club group I'm in.

[Richard Fairhurst]

Do yell if you need any help with map licences - it's a bit of a speciality of mine, I'm afraid...

[grahame]

Do yell if you need any help with map licences - it's a bit of a speciality of mine, I'm afraid...

Will do, thanks.


I've just arrived in Swindon .. a couple of hours to kill, so I walked into the bus station to check that they didn't have anything.  The size of the hole emphasised by my chat with the lady there;  Monday to Saturday and Sunday buses radically differ, with different operators and routes for the same part of town on Sundays, and no combined timetable. There's even a special "Swindon Sunday Timetables" booklet.   Small comfort, I suppose ... there ARE Sunday buses and the information on them IS available.  Town / things to do in Swindon?  Not really the bus company's business; "refer to TIC^▸ (Tourist Information Centre) in library" was advise - probably the best advise to give, yet really not good.

[bobm]

Indeed if you want both of the main operators timetables you have to go to the office at the bus station for Stagecoach and then a five minute walk to Fleming Way to get Thamesdown's.

At least it is now possible to use Thamesdown smartcards on Stagecoach buses.  Before you had to use your card to get a paper ticket on a Thamesdown Bus so you could show the Stagecoach driver.

[grahame]

Do yell if you need any help with map licences - it's a bit of a speciality of mine, I'm afraid...

That's fantastic - thank.   Having a further look today, I think lady luck may be on our side as the map base we used looks remarkable like an OS^▸ (Ordnance Survey) Open Data set

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/using-creating-data-with-os-products/os-opendata.html

You are therefore able to use the OS OpenData datasets in any way and for any purpose. We simply ask that you acknowledge the copyright and the source of the data by including the following attribution statement:

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (year)

So I think we just add that line.   Have I read that right?