Re: [Talk-transit] Mapping train services in Great Britain

2021-05-31 Thread Roger Slevin
An interesting thread – and one in which I agree with Tony, Mark and Peter in saying that public transport services and timetables don’t appear to me to have a valid place in OSM. Whilst the infrastructure on which public transport operates and depends can and should be mapped as part of an

Re: [Talk-transit] different interpretations of v2 PT scheme

2015-07-04 Thread Roger Slevin
scheme čet, 2. srp 2015. 16:32 Roger Slevin ro...@slevin.plus.com je napisao: I think you are falling into the trap of trying to cover too many things in one relationship. A stoparea to me as a public transport person is (defined functionally) a cluster of stoppoints at which it is possible

Re: [Talk-transit] different interpretations of v2 PT scheme

2015-07-03 Thread Roger Slevin
topics Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] different interpretations of v2 PT scheme 2015-07-02 16:31 GMT+02:00 Roger Slevin ro...@slevin.plus.com: Eric I think you are falling into the trap of trying to cover too many things in one relationship. It seems like your email client did not display

Re: [Talk-transit] different interpretations of v2 PT scheme

2015-07-02 Thread Roger Slevin
Eric I think you are falling into the trap of trying to cover too many things in one relationship. A stoparea to me as a public transport person is (defined functionally) a cluster of stoppoints at which it is possible to interchange between services – and as such it is also a collection

Re: [Talk-transit] Buses in Brighton, UK

2015-06-30 Thread Roger Slevin
should use the latest version of NaPTAN and I can supply a copy in XML or CSV format if that would help. Best wishes Roger Slevin Traveline south east anglia From: Chris Hill [mailto:o...@raggedred.net] Sent: 30 June 2015 10:58 To: Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics

Re: [Talk-transit] Buses in Brighton, UK

2015-06-30 Thread Roger Slevin
too. Cheers, Chris On 30 June 2015 11:21:39 GMT+01:00, Roger Slevin ro...@slevin.plus.com wrote: I am surprised to hear that the current NaPTAN data (which is continually updated) has errors in it – and I wonder therefore if the problem may lie in the updating of NaPTAN data in OSM. The original

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Roger Slevin
I have not been able to follow the large number of posts on this group in recent weeks - but I can confirm that stopareas are an important part of NaPTAN data in the UK, and are an important aspect of the way that stops data are used in journey planning applications. It would be a pity if OSM

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Roger Slevin
Proposal Criticism On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Michał Borsuk michal.bor...@gmail.com wrote: Am 24.01.2011 09:39, schrieb Roger Slevin: I have not been able to follow the large number of posts on this group in recent weeks - but I can confirm that stopareas are an important part

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed additional tags for bus stops and animport of San Fracisco data

2010-07-16 Thread Roger Slevin
In NaPTAN each direction of travel must be modelled with a separate stop - so even though you may have a sign which says stops in both directions (but the sign is only on one side of the road) ... there are two NaPTAN records, one showing a marked stop, and the other an unmarked one (what we call

Re: [Talk-transit] Bus stops in North America from GTFS data

2010-06-11 Thread Roger Slevin
transport stops to pick up and set down passengers - a reflection of the data for which can be seen on Google Maps, for instance, in the public transport stop icons nationwide. Roger Slevin -Original Message- From: talk-transit-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-transit-boun

Re: [Talk-transit] Bus stops in North America from GTFS data

2010-06-11 Thread Roger Slevin
transport/transit/shared taxi related topics Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] Bus stops in North America from GTFS data On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Roger Slevin ro...@slevin.plus.com wrote: And whilst Peter Stoner is correct that Oxford is unusual in having two different next departure services

Re: [Talk-transit] New versions of NaPTAN now publicly available under free license?

2010-03-22 Thread Roger Slevin
As the person who arranged the NaPTAN data supply for OSM - which Ito then managed in a technical sense - I can confirm that it will remain possible for OSM to take occasional downloads of data for NaPTAN. Whether you want to do so through data.gov.uk where they appear to have taken a snapshot of

Re: [Talk-transit] NaPTAN - Time for the rest?

2010-03-13 Thread Roger Slevin
Thomas If you want a refresh of the NaPTAN dataset, then just ask me and I will arrange for this be made available. I appreciate that this could be a two-edged sword it would update the data, but in the areas where work has already been done on the data from a year ago, it may

Re: [Talk-transit] Abbreviations in naptan:indicator

2009-11-09 Thread Roger Slevin
that the use of the indicator field is still being refined and not everything that is in the current database is good practice. Possibly Roger (Slevin) or Peter (Stoner) will be able to give us some more detail on this. [1] http://www.dft.gov.uk/naptan/schema/schemas.htm#2.2 Regards, Peter

Re: [Talk-transit] local_ref problem around Anerley in NAPTAN

2009-09-02 Thread Roger Slevin
Mann wrote: NaPTAN has node info; I was thinking more of deriving way and relation info. Richard On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Roger Slevin ro...@slevin.plus.com mailto:ro...@slevin.plus.com wrote: TfL supplies its data to NaPTAN – and this is the national official source

Re: [Talk-transit] NaPTAN Merging Guidelines

2009-08-18 Thread Roger Slevin
Bryce NaPTAN does not allow the character / to be part of a commonname as NaPTAN rules (not fully adhered to by TfL or LBSL) do not allow composite commonnames. Underground station entrances are included in NaPTAN data ... they are part of the 490 area data (whereas the stations themselves are

Re: [Talk-transit] NAPTAN Import: Plus-bus Zones

2009-08-06 Thread Roger Slevin
PlusBus zone boundaries are defined by the stoppoints at the edges of the zones. It should be possible to draw straight lines between each of the boundary points to define the polygon of the area they cover (all stops within such a polygon are members of that PlusBus zone). The exceptional

Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import

2009-08-02 Thread Roger Slevin
Plusbus zones are polygons which are unrelated to the road network - so for Rye it covers a large polygon defined by straight lines linking each pair of adjacent nodes on the source list of defining points. The representation of this along the roads is inappropriate - and certainly not how it

Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import

2009-08-02 Thread Roger Slevin
...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Christoph Böhme Sent: 02 August 2009 11:40 To: talk-transit@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import Roger Slevin ro...@slevin.plus.com schrieb: Plusbus zones are polygons which are unrelated to the road network - so for Rye it covers a large polygon defined

Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import

2009-07-31 Thread Roger Slevin
Thomas Thanks for this - the East Sussex one is clearly wrong (not a lot of Gaelic spoken there) ... and is something we don't check on, and it hadn't been spotted before. I have asked the editor to correct it (to blank or en). I don't have that influence with Perth Kinross - though I will try.

Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import

2009-07-29 Thread Roger Slevin
The polygon should be closed by linking the final entry back to the first entry in the file for each PlusBus Zone Roger -Original Message- From: talk-transit-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-transit-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Wood Sent: 29 July 2009 22:58 To:

Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import

2009-07-29 Thread Roger Slevin
[mailto:christ...@b3e.net] Sent: 29 July 2009 18:36 To: ro...@slevin.plus.com Cc: 'Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics'; 'Peter Miller' Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import Roger Slevin ro...@slevin.plus.com schrieb: Christoph Sorry - I now realise I shouldn't have referred

Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import

2009-07-28 Thread Roger Slevin
: Christoph Böhme [mailto:christ...@b3e.net] Sent: 28 July 2009 22:54 To: ro...@slevin.plus.com; Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics Cc: ro...@slevin.plus.com; 'Peter Miller' Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import Roger, thank you for your explanations. Roger Slevin ro

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 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
-Original Message- From: Christoph Böhme [mailto:christ...@b3e.net] Sent: 27 July 2009 22:14 To: ro...@slevin.plus.com Cc: 'Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics' Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] Naptan import Hi Roger Slevin ro...@slevin.plus.com schrieb: Locality

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-transit] NaPTAN and the new PT tagging schema

2009-06-26 Thread Roger Slevin
I agree with Peter's view on Custom and Practice (CUS) stops - they exist ... but they are not marked in the same way as MKD stops are marked. But they are real as far as the user is concerned! Roger -Original Message- From: talk-transit-boun...@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-transit] NaPTAN bus stop database import - some moreobservations

2009-04-01 Thread Roger Slevin
Brian Good comments - and from my NaPTAN perspective I share your view that data improvement should be a two-way thing. I am very keen to see if we can make that work through this exercise. I have always said that linear positioning of bus stops can be good enough if it is +/- 10m given that a

Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-transit] Naptan alignment

2009-03-31 Thread Roger Slevin
:50 To: ro...@slevin.plus.com; 'Peter Miller' Cc: talk-tran...@openstreetmap.org; Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org; 'Brian Prangle' Subject: RE: [Talk-transit] [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Naptan alignment Roger Slevin [mailto:ro...@slevin.plus.com] wrote: Sent: 31 March 2009 10:16 PM To: 'Peter

Re: [Talk-transit] [Spam] Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] NaPTAN dataimport

2009-03-08 Thread Roger Slevin
Joe [apologies if this appears twice - last night's posting did not appear to get through] I think there is a misunderstanding in your question. TransXChange is an XML schema based on Transmodel architecture and is increasingly used within the UK to exchange route and timetable data, taking over

Re: [Talk-transit] NaPTAN bus stop database import

2009-02-28 Thread Roger Slevin
Brian Stoptype HAR has sub-records which contain two pairs of coordinates, one representing the entry point to the linear footprint, and the other representing the exit point. If guidance has been followed, then the linear footprint should stay on a road link with the same name along its length

Re: [Talk-transit] NaPTAN bus stop database

2009-02-23 Thread Roger Slevin
Perhaps I can authoritatively assure you that the localities data does NOT derive from Ordnance Survey - the source was a database compiled originally by ONS, but they were happy to allow DfT exclusive rights on the use of that data for NPTG. So I am not aware of any reason why DfT cannot allow