[Talk-GB] NaPTAN updating for new bus stops

[Chris Hodges]

Thanks Tony.  That sounds completely feasible, with no special tools.  I 
can get the lat/long from my own walk anyway and copy-paste the rest.


C

On 15/12/2021 13:03, Tony Shield wrote:
> Hi Chris
>
> Being doing some NaPTAN work locally in Lancashire recently.
>
> Suggest you go to the DfT's NaPTAN site 
> https://beta-naptan.dft.gov.uk/Download/La and download the South Glos 
> csv file.
>
> Open it with a spreadsheet and search for the data. I've just done 
> that and opened it and found the Bristol Parkway Stn stops (rows 
> 24-27). If you only plan to create those stops then the data is there 
> to use manually against the NaPTAN tags in 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Tag_mappings.
>
> I notice that the latitude and longitude data is missing from the 
> download but OS Easting and Northing positions are in the data.
>
> This South Glos download contains substantially less data about 
> locality and towns than in the Lancashire download I am using. Does 
> anyone have a comment?
>
> Hope this is helpful Chris.
>
> TonyS999
>
> On 15/12/2021 12:43, Chris Hodges wrote:
>> Bristol Parkway Station (located in South Glos) now has 4 bus stops 
>> A-D. OSM  Shows the old B (where the new C is) and C (where there's 
>> no longer a stop).  I had some time to kill there yesterday and did a 
>> quick survey so have enough information to update the map.
>>
>> But:
>>
>> If I go in and start editing, I'm likely to break the existing 
>> NaPTAN-sourced data, and I don't see an easy route to query NaPTAN in 
>> a human-readable way to compare it or add the new stops.  For someone 
>> who's not going to get into mass edits or data imports, what's the 
>> best way to proceed?  Should this be re-imported, or is there a 
>> datasource I'm missing?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>>
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