[oxoncotswolds] Bus stops imported

[Richard Fairhurst]

Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote:

> Looks like the Oxontime number is the same thing as the NaptanCode /
> SMSNumber described in http://www.pti.org.uk/naptanc.htm and
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Tag_mappings#General_values
> {{1}} .  When mapped through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.161 the
> letter-string values like "SMS:oxfajgaw" used by other NAPTAN consumers
> like the "all stops" search on
> http://www.transportdirect.info/Web2/Maps/JourneyPlannerLocationMap.aspx?cacheparam=11
>
> map to numeric codes like 69325429 that look awfully similar to the ones
> I've seen on the street.

This is quite bizarre. If I go to oxontime and punch my postcode in,  
all the Charlbury stops are given numeric references like 69326756.  
Same on livebus.org, of course.

But the OCC public transport map down at Charlbury station has Naptan  
alphabetic codes, e.g. oxfampjm.

I _think_ the new OCC bus-stop signs, erected in the last couple of  
months to replace the Stagecoach-branded ones (only a couple of years  
old themselves), have alphabetic codes too. But I'll check when I'm  
back in Charlbury tomorrow.

Yours from the outer reaches of service 20A,
Richard