[Talk-transit] NAPTAN bus stops

[Thomas Wood]

2009/2/17 Brian Prangle <bprangle at googlemail.com>:
> I've done a quick overview of the NAPTAN manual - never knew it would be so
> complex and such a steep learning curve!  Can I propose as a first step in
> importing this data that we confine ourselves to onstreet stops? I'm unsure
> about offstreet stops but we may have to do these as there will be towns and
> cities where buses arrive and depart from bus stations which are "off
> street" rather than from stops on the roads in city centres. For example,
> it will be interesting to see how the bus stops at Birmingham International
> Rail Station are classified - they're actually inside the building and
> automatic doors open onto the street when the bus arrives - there are no
> pavements.
>
>  ( If we try to incorporate all the other data types (e.g taxi, air, ferry,
> rail)  at this stage I think it will just take too long - I think we should
> leave them for subsequent phases. It would be good to get something up
> reasonably quickly).
>
> Once we've agreed on onstreet/offstreet we need then to agree on what fields
> we need to import and how to tag them in OSM - a start has already been made
> at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Tag_mappings.
>
> So fire away on  opinions on  restricting the import to bus stops for this
> phase and onstreet/offstreet
>
> Brian

+1, it simplifies stuff a bit.

But, in the meantime, I've got my importer to create nodes now (!),
I'll run a dumb convert of everything in the Birmingham area to see
what the data there's like.

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)