[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Updating the NaPTAN bus stops in Birmingham
Hi, I plan to do an update of the NaPTAN bus stops in Birmingham to bring them in line with the imports in the rest of the country. The update will make the following changes: 1. All naptan:unverified=yes tags are changed to naptan:verified=no. This will make maintenance of the colour schemes in Novam easier. 2. naptan:unverified=no tags are removed. I think this makes more sense than replacing them with naptan:verified=yes. 3. naptan:AdministrativeAreaRef tags will be removed as they have only been used in the Birmingham import and nowhere else. So the tag is quite useless (tagwatch lists 105 as the only value for the tag). 4. naptan:Bearing tags will be added to all NaPTAN stops that do not have them yet (i.e. the stops in Birmingham). 5. naptan:BusStopType=CUS will be added when available and not yet existing. I am currently making the finishing touches on the import script and will test it then. So, if there are no objections against the changes the update should ready to go ahead in a couple of days. Method used for the update: I extracted atco-code, bearing, and bus stop type with an xsl script from the NaPTAN xml file for the West Midlands and placed the data into a new table in the Novam database. Since Novam maintains an up-to-date extract of all bus stops in OSM the bus stops which need be updated can easily be selected and joined with the new data in the table created before. Finally, a python script goes through the selected bus stops, applies the modifications outlined above to each them, and uploads them through the python osm api to OSM. If the upload fails due to a version conflict the latest version of the bus stop is retrieved from OSM and the script changes this node and uploads it again. The scripts are currently tailored to add and remove some tags from the Birmingham bus stops. However, I think this update might be a helpful step towards more complex updates of the NaPTAN data in OSM. Cheers, Christoph ___ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
[Talk-GB] Veterinary
Hi, all. I'd like to add my local veterinary practice to the map, but can't find an appropriate tag. Does one exist? Cheers, Chris. -- Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: http://www.getgnulinux.org/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Veterinary
Chris Andrew wrote: Hi, all. I'd like to add my local veterinary practice to the map, but can't find an appropriate tag. Does one exist? Cheers, Chris. OSMDoc has amenity=veterinary as the most-used version of the tag: http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/amenity/veterinary -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] OS boundaries and 'mid-level' mapping data to be released for free re-use including commerically
On 17/11/09 16:24, Peter Miller wrote: Possibly we have have some accurate boundary information soon! By 'mid- level mapping' do they mean Meridian I wonder? Please to bear in mind this sentence: The Government will consult on proposals to make data from Ordnance Survey freely available... so no guarantees yet... I'm sure the OS will have a view they'd like to put during the consultation after all ;-) There is also the small issue of the fact that the consultation is due to run until April next year and there's this small matter of a General Election coming up around that time... This is interesting though: Data relating to electoral and local authority boundaries as well as postcode areas would be released for free re-use... Do OS even have an (unencumbered) data set for postcode areas? Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] OS boundaries and 'mid-level' mapping data to be released for free re-use including commerically
2009/11/17 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu Data relating to electoral and local authority boundaries as well as postcode areas would be released for free re-use... I might be unduly skeptical, especially thinking about some of the people now advising the Government on this, but I wonder if the consultation exercise will still end up fudging the free part, i.e. not quite going for a blanket do what you want license to get around any copyright and other possible legal restrictions. Still, great if it happened, about time too. Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] OS boundaries and 'mid-level' mapping data to be released for free re-use including commerically
On 17 Nov 2009, at 18:30, Tom Chance wrote: 2009/11/17 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu Data relating to electoral and local authority boundaries as well as postcode areas would be released for free re-use... I might be unduly skeptical, especially thinking about some of the people now advising the Government on this, but I wonder if the consultation exercise will still end up fudging the free part, i.e. not quite going for a blanket do what you want license to get around any copyright and other possible legal restrictions. Still, great if it happened, about time too. I think a very good and useful test of how 'free' it is will be if it can be integrated into OSM or if we need to carry on with our dodgy 50 yo boundary data. My intention of working hard on the OSM boundary data a few months ago was to ensure that we had a credible (poor) dataset which would be used unless the OS data was released. The big test will be if the OS also continue to sell the data as well. If they do then it isn't fully free. If they don't then they have nothing to loose from making it fully free. Personally I think we can actually help it become free enough by a little appropriate pushing in the intervening period. Regards, Peter Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
