[Talk-transit] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] NAPTAN database

Thomas Wood grand.edgemaster at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 18:09:27 GMT 2009


2009/2/21 Thomas Wood <grand.edgemaster at gmail.com>:
> 2009/2/21 Simon Ward <simon at bleah.co.uk>:
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:03:43AM -0000, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
>>> Here is the photo of that stop Brian mentioned above:
>>>
>>> http://ajr.hopto.org/osm/SD530488.JPG
>>>
>>> Note that my OSM data entry is missing the stuff at the top of the sign
>>> which Brian has been putting under the name tag I believe. Only stops at
>>> major intersections/termini I think have these extra bits of data at the top
>>> of the sign.
>>>
>>> And another example showing that they normally use the word "towards" on
>>> most of the west midlands stop signs.
>>>
>>> http://ajr.hopto.org/osm/SD530486.JPG
>>
>> For comparison:
>>
>> http://bleah.co.uk/~simon/photos/osm/mount_road-belle_vue-stop.jpg
>>
>> This is:
>>
>> http://openstreetmap.org/browse/node/343284691
>>
>> I didn't tag the "B", and I have been tagging bus service numbers with
>> "services" not "route_ref" (possibly a mistake considering the existence
>> of road services).  The SMS text code is normally on the other side of the
>> stop sign.
>>
>> Simon
>
> The Gtr Manchester data looks quite good, some points:
> The stop ref is formed from digits 5-10 of the AtcoCode.
> The SMS text code is the NaptanCode
> The B is shown in both the Name and Indicator fields in the 'standard
> way' that I currently parse for.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Thomas Wood
> (Edgemaster)
>

I've now transcribed all these findings onto the wiki at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Local_schemes

-- 
Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)




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