[Talk-transit] NAPTAN bus stops

[Thomas Wood]

2009/2/17 Thomas Wood <grand.edgemaster at gmail.com>:
> 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.

The 5 nodes that the WestMids NaPTAN data has for Birmingham
International Station are all BCT/MKD (which means marked on-street
stop)
I'm guessing there's more nodes for the station, but they'll be in the
National Rail extract.

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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)