[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Collaboration with TfWM

[Brian Prangle]

Hi everyone

I had a great meeting with TfWM today . Essentially they're planning a
complete revamp of their website and provision of public information and
have come to the conclusion that OSM is the base map they need to use.

I'll be spending half a day a week with their key developers in exploring
which data needs to be updated in OSM and which they will keep as their own
layer. They are well-advanced in preparing their cartographic style and
providing their own tile server.

We've agreed to use Birmingham City Centre(i.e inside the inner ring road)
as a pilot area. Once we've ironed out data and editing issues and how to
work with each other and the pilot has been successful, we'll roll out
through the major interchanges.

Editing and maintaining public transport data is not an easy task and one
we've failed at, despite our best efforts, so there's a potential to do
several imports.

1.There's a new opendata NapTAN dataset which is more accurate (<1m now
with gps cleardowns from bus sensors) and with more attributes than our
previous set which is now over 6 years old and never completed tagging from
import. Many of our bus stops surveyed years ago have probably been
deleted. Clearing up the partially completed and out-of date data we have
with the new data we are never going to do manually so I like the local
community's views on using an import in the proposed pilot area
2. Swift Collectors are being installed in bus stations and bus shelters
and on bus poles ( these are top-up points not payment points) and we
already have the data. Once the tagging schema is sorted out (see separate
posts) this would make a great import. Views on this also please.
3. Metro extensions that have secured a funding stream - we can have the
data- this is not huge and is manageable with manual editing
4.  Electric charge points - import or manual? Might be manageable manually
initially but is only going one way and that's up.
5. I also asked TfWM for updates and data on any major upgrades as they
take place (bus/railway stations and interchanges)

This discussion is not about a general import across the UK it's
specifically aimed at the West Midlands community where the imports are
proposed and is aimed at building a relationship with a key player in the
region, taking pressure off key OSM contributors, and improving the map at
a rate we can't achieve manually.

regards

Brian
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