Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import

2009-07-27 Thread Roger Slevin
Peter Locality Classification was added as a possible nice to have to the version 2 schema but it has not been populated, and no guidance has been created to indicate how this field should be used (save for a table of permitted values). There is no classification data in NPTG other than that

Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import

2009-07-27 Thread Christoph Böhme
Good evening, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com schrieb: On 26 Jul 2009, at 22:14, Christoph Böhme wrote: I also created a copy of the NOVAM viewer and changed it to display NTPG data instead of bus stops: http://www.mappa-mercia.org/cgi-bin/nptg.wsgi/viewer.html Great stuff, and

Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import

2009-07-27 Thread Christoph Böhme
Hi Roger Slevin ro...@slevin.plus.com schrieb: Locality Classification was added as a possible nice to have to the version 2 schema but it has not been populated, and no guidance has been created to indicate how this field should be used (save for a table of permitted values). There is no

Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import

2009-07-27 Thread Roger Slevin
You ask about the omissions from NPTG. Perhaps it would be helpful if I described the history of creating NPTG and what the brief has been to local data editors in terms of what is or is not included in the database. NPTG started life as a national statistical gazetteer based on a collation of

Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import

2009-07-27 Thread Roger Slevin
One other possibility that might work would be to look at the number of bus stops associated with a locality - something fairly easy to measure from NaPTAN. Combine this with the parent / child locality relationship could give you a way of expressing a sort of locality type classification. Roger

Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import

2009-07-27 Thread Chris Hill
Christoph Böhme wrote: Hi Roger Slevin ro...@slevin.plus.com schrieb: Locality Classification was added as a possible nice to have to the version 2 schema but it has not been populated, and no guidance has been created to indicate how this field should be used (save for a table of