[Talk-GB] Official database of 350, 00 GB bus stops etc and 50, 000 places to be made available!

[David Earl]

On 23/12/2008 14:48, Peter Miller wrote:
> I am pleased to be able to announce that after discussions between 
> various OSM contributors and the DfT / Traveline over the past months we 
> are now able to make this announcement just in time for Xmas :)
> 
> ---
> 
> The UK Department for Transport, together with Traveline, is offering
> to make available the bulk of the data from their NaPTAN and NPTG data 
> sets to
> the OpenStreetMap project.

Excellent news indeed. Well done.

It will be interesting to see how these align with existing data.

Place names are going to be an interesting exercise as they are unlikely 
to be in the same place - could be widely different.

I imagine I could help if you want/need assistance with importing.

David