[Talk-gb-westmidlands] NAPTAN bus stop database

[Christoph Böhme]

Hi,

this sounds like a great project to keep me busy now that the website
is kind of finished. I would be happy to contribute with some coding.

I share Andy's objection on a wide area import. It will probably add a
lot of complexity due to more people being involved and it will become
difficult to monitor how the NAPTAN data integrates into the map in
different areas. So, I rather prefer to do a test in Birmingham and
see how this works before pouring bus stops over the whole country.

Christoph

Brian Prangle <bprangle at googlemail.com> schrieb:

> Hi everyone
> 
> 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.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Brian
>