Hi everyone<br><br>I had a long chat with Peter Miller of ITOWorld today who is a mine of information and contacts regarding public transport both in the UK and internationally. He reckons we could have a copy of the NAPTAN database within about a week. It has approx 350K items and requires someone to generate some code to import a subset of the data ( we can't import everything for commercial reasons) and tag it suitably. The code would have to be able to cope with weekly imports and eventually daily imports ( apparently there are about 100 changes a day. Peter is pleased we ( well me, really) are showing an interest and I offered to project manage the import and management as I can't code. Christophe and Ciaran are you up for this? Or have you any pals in the Linux/computer science areas that would like to have a crack at this- all code would be opensource. We could just import W Mids to start with to perfect the technique of de-duping existing bus-stops, or go for a big-bang approach - needs to be discussed. Peter could find us a technical liaison. Opportunity to make a big contribution (and a big splash!) to OSM nationally and potentially internationally as there are loads of similar bus stop databases around the world complete with a US vs Europe standards battle at the ISO.<br>
<br>Regards<br><br>Brian<br>