I'm not overly fused either way, but if it was me, I would spend my time updating the Naptan data in OSM. As I understand it the Naptan data gets regular updates, but we have never looked at comparing what is in OSM against the latest Naptan dataset (and this applies to pretty much all OSM imports as well).
Rob ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brian Prangle <[email protected]> Date: 3 February 2014 19:55 Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bus stops: proposal To: Matthijs Melissen <[email protected]> Cc: talk-gb-westmidlands <[email protected]> Hi Matthijs I can't see the point of putting Naptan:Street into the name - it will just repeat information that's already there in the street itself. Common name only is what is used I believe in the rest of the UK. I haven't asked the obvious question which is why do this at all? I'm a bit concerned that this might clutter up the transport layer, but I don't know which field is used here You should also be aware that this data is is very old - I think at least 5 years many of the bus stops simply do not exist any longer and many have been created that are not here. We might do better to see if we can get a more up to date set locally from Centro, before spending too much time on this. Or perhaps we should revisit the release of data at a national level? regards Brian On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Matthijs Melissen <[email protected] > wrote: > Dear all, > > As I mentioned in my previous thread, I would like to populate the > name field of bus stops in the West Midlands. > > I would like to use the following format: > > - For stops with blue flags, set > name=First_line_on_pole/Second_line_on_pole (this normally corresponds > to Naptan:Street/Naptan:CommonName). > - For black poles, set name=Text_on_pole (this normally corresponds to > Naptan:CommonName). > - Set local_ref to the two/three character reference (this normally > corresponds to local_ref=YF where Naptan:indicator=Stop YF). > > I have this also documented on > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Local_schemes . > > This proposal only describes how we want the name tag and local_ref > tag to be set. When I'm ready to do a mechanical edit, I will write a > separate proposal to discuss that. > > For now, I will execute only manual edits (in line with the above > proposal) for stops that I have actually surveyed (mainly in the city > center). > > Please let me know if you have any comments. > > Kind regards, > Matthijs > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands > _______________________________________________ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
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