[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Collaboration with TfWM

[Andy Robinson]

Awesome Brain. I shall digest and come back with comments.

 

What’s the timescale for implementation?

 

Cheers

Andy

 

From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bprangle at gmail.com] 
Sent: 16 January 2017 20:53
To: talk-gb-westmidlands
Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Collaboration with TfWM

 

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 Clearing up the partially completed and out-of date data we have with the new data we are never going to do manually so I like the local community's views on using an import in the proposed pilot area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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