[Talk-GB] NaPTAN (stop) import

[Stuart Reynolds]

Oliver,

TNDS data (Traveline National Data Set, for other’s benefit - national set of bus & coach timetables) does not currently have the route detail - known in TransXChange as tracks. This is because up to now there have been issues of IPR with OSGR coordinates derived from OS and/or Navteq data.

Certainly from our point of view - and by “us” I mean the traveline regions of South East, London, East Anglia, South West, East Midlands and (shortly) West Midlands - we are all now on a merged system using OSM data so those problems have gone away. But I still won’t be exporting Tracks until TNDS asks me to.

Even then, it still has the issues of “is this right”. Most of the time it is, but we do get some routes which find a shorter path along a back street rather than down the main road.

Cheers
Stuart

From: Oliver Jowett [mailto:oliver.jowett at gmail.com]
Sent: 01 August 2014 1:51 PM
To: Stuart Reynolds
Cc: Talk GB
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN (stop) import

On 1 August 2014 11:17, Stuart Reynolds <stuart at travelinesoutheast.org.uk<mailto:stuart at travelinesoutheast.org.uk>> wrote:

In terms of bus routes, we also compute the most likely route between stops, and could use that to update the services on each link. But that is a whole different ball game - we have to make sure our data is good quality, and I will need to think what to do when a bus turns off halfway along a road that is mapped as one line, for example, - and I’m not about to get into that for now! Although I would like to, eventually!

Where does TNDS fit into this?

Oliver

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