[Talk-transit] NaPTAN import

Christoph Böhme christoph at b3e.net
Wed Mar 18 22:49:15 GMT 2009


Hi all

has there been any progress with the NaPTAN import yet? The list has
been very quiet recently.
I started programming the visual merge tool but I have not yet reached
a point where there is something to show. I decided not to modify the
busstop data in the osm database directly but to keep a seperate copy
of the relevant nodes that can be merged into the database at some
point when we tidied it up (basically like the dracos tool does it).

Just wanted to let you know that I have not given up on the import ...

Christoph

Brian Prangle <bprangle at googlemail.com> schrieb:

> Hi everyone
> 
> Summarising where I believe we've got to:
> 
> 1. Thomas: schedule for completion - we're entirely in your hands -
> agree it's best to avoid the API update.
> 2. Birmingham only for test import
> 3. No highway=bus_stop tags, enabling us to merge/verify existing OSM
> data ( Christophe's visual tool to eventually solve this manual task)
> BUT tag taxi ranks as amenity=taxi
> 4. Import on the basis of the current selection/naming in naptan
> tagging wiki. Imports to be carried out by new user naptan
> 5. Plusbus zones and stop areas - import the naptan data only and
> leave doing anything with it until the debate on stopareas reaches a
> conclusion
> 6. Roger/Peter:  is our current method of accessing the data OK? Or
> do you have to explicitly issue us with a dataset (perhaps the data
> publicly available for test is not the most current/accurate?)
> 7. Andy: agree on re-tagging w mids bus stops with route_ref and using
> semicolons instead of pipes to separate route nos in order to
> standardise - presume you have an automated routine for this?
> 8. Update needed on wiki regarding bus_stops (Andy? I'm happy to do a
> first draft for you to edit before publication - or better still
> submit it to this discussion list)
> 
> Parked for later discussion/solution
> 
> a)Stopareas (see above)
> b)Big-bang vs regional adoption (probably a talk gb discussion once
> Birmingham data and process completed)
> c)handling NaPTAN bus_stop updates
> d) importing further NaPTAN public transport data
> e) user feedback - there's a wide range of skill and experience in
> the OSM community and there are certain to be problems. An explicit
> route needed? f) how to maintain data integrity once it's imported
> and inexperienced users potentially delete data that other users have
> written applications that rely on it being there. I guess this is
> general problem not specific to this project- but this is a donated
> dataset and potentially could drive a considerable number of
> applications
> 
> Unless there are any strong objections,(or I've ommitted anything
> from the discussions) I'd like to think we can close the discussion
> on the import and let Thomas get on with finishing the coding. Thank
> you everyone for your time and contributions
> 
> We can continue discussion on the parked items and anything else that
> doesn't impact the coding for the first live Birmingham import
> 
> Regards
> 
> Brian
> 




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