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

2010-03-22 Thread Chris Hill
Christoph Böhme wrote: I found the time (or rather an easier solution to the problem): NOVAM now uses the XAPI servers to retrieve the bus stop data. So, it should be up-to-date again and hopefully in the future as well :-) Good news, I have missed it. Cheers, Chris

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

2010-03-21 Thread Christoph Böhme
Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net schrieb: 2010/3/16 Christoph Böhme christ...@b3e.net Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net schrieb: I recall a tool developed for the west midlands showing the state of the imported data, but can that be used nationwide? I reckon you are refering to NOVAM

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

2010-03-17 Thread Mark Williams
Gregory wrote: Ah, I hadn't seen http://openbusmap.org/ / http://www.öpnvkarte.de/ http://www.xn--pnvkarte-m4a.de/ before. It looks cool and I sometimes want to know the route the buses take (in a non-schematic way). Just a quick look of my parents place and I've spotted two routes that are

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

2010-03-17 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Richard Mann Sent: 17 March 2010 9:29 AM To: Mark Williams Cc: Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics; OSM - Talk GB Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-transit] NaPTAN - Time for the rest? On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:09

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

2010-03-17 Thread Steve Doerr
On 17/03/2010 09:12, Peter Childs wrote: Fun more work, That will be a fun couple of days work adding routes for every South Eastern Train, and then I'll have to get on to the Medway buses too. Nice map shame about the lack of data guess we'll just have to add it. Presumably we can't crib

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

2010-03-17 Thread Tom Chance
On 17 March 2010 15:21, Steve Doerr steve.do...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Presumably we can't crib from published bus-maps and timetables, as that would be breach of copyright? I guess it means riding every bus route from terminus to terminus? Hopefully they sell 'rover' tickets! All those

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

2010-03-17 Thread Gregory
On 17 March 2010 00:09, Mark Williams mark@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: All the ferries too! This beats several of the commercial maps, my car still refuses to believe in the Southampton-Cowes *fairy*! It only opens it's wings and flies when your car is sleeping. Yes, a lot of routes can be

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

2010-03-16 Thread Oliver O'Brien
Great idea - I've put together just such a visualisation, have a look at: http://gibin.geog.ucl.ac.uk/~ollie/lonelybuses/ At z12 it's generated on-demand so might be a bit slow in places. I've used 30m as the cut-off distance between the busstops and the centreline of any kind of highway.

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

2010-03-16 Thread Sam Vekemans
Can a WMS tileserver.map be generated (from the source shp files)? This can be used as another option for the community to make use of the data. Thanks, Sam On 3/16/10, Oliver O'Brien m...@oliverobrien.co.uk wrote: Great idea - I've put together just such a visualisation, have a look at:

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

2010-03-16 Thread Thomas Wood
Sent: 13 March 2010 12:45 PM To: osm; OSM - Talk GB Subject: [Talk-transit] NaPTAN - Time for the rest? Hello all, It's now been more than a year since we got permission to import the NaPTAN dataset, so far only 53 of the 143 counties that we have the data for have been imported. So, in short

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

2010-03-16 Thread Tom Chance
On 16 March 2010 17:00, Thomas Wood grand.edgemas...@gmail.com wrote: We'd all prefer it if it'd be handled locally, but there just doesn't seem to be much interest in improving the data en-mass, merely in the piecewise way that most people have mapped up until now. I may be wrong about

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

2010-03-16 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 16 March 2010 17:46, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: :-) I sallied forth on this issue at WhereCampEU - topics of how to improve the public transit data in OSM came up a surprising number of times on Saturday. Step One: Register a better domain name for people who can't remember

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

2010-03-16 Thread Christoph Böhme
Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net schrieb: I recall a tool developed for the west midlands showing the state of the imported data, but can that be used nationwide? I reckon you are refering to NOVAM (http://mappa-mercia.org/novam)? The tool is working nationwide. However, the data it shows has not

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

2010-03-16 Thread Tom Chance
2010/3/16 Christoph Böhme christ...@b3e.net Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net schrieb: I recall a tool developed for the west midlands showing the state of the imported data, but can that be used nationwide? I reckon you are refering to NOVAM (http://mappa-mercia.org/novam)? The tool is

Re: [Talk-GB] [Talk-transit] NaPTAN - Time for the rest? (Thomas Wood

2010-03-14 Thread Nick Allen
Hi, Not only is the NaPTAN data useful for planning journeys, but I've also found it useful when mapping - if an area of the map contains bus stops but no roads then you know it's worth going there for a bike ride! Regards Nick (Tallguy) ___