This is awesome news to hear! A big thank you to all those involved, in OSM and the DfT / Traveline.
Kyle Peter Miller wrote: > I am pleased to be able to announce that after discussions between > various OSM contributors and the DfT / Traveline over the past months > we are now able to make this announcement just in time for Xmas :) > > --- > > The UK Department for Transport, together with Traveline, is offering > to make available the bulk of the data from their NaPTAN and NPTG data > sets to > the OpenStreetMap project. > > The National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN) dataset contains > details of some 350,000 public transport access points in Great > Britain including bus stops, > railway stations, tram stops and ferry terminals. This data > includes a name, geocode, official code and other information useful > to the project. > > The National Public Transport Gazetteer (NPTG) dataset is a gazetteer > of some 50,000 place names in the UK with a name and a geocode. These > places are arranged in a hierarchy so that it is known that Camden is > in London. Again there is additional information in the data set that > is useful to the project. > > The Department requires that the official identifier for each feature > is also included in the imported data to allow the movement of these > features to be tracked over time and for updates to potentially be > added in the future. > > For the avoidance of doubt the datasets themselves will remain Crown > copyright. The Department > is however offering a single one-off bulk import to OpenStreetMap under > the required CCBYSA licence used on OSM. It may from time to time > offer updates, but this is not guaranteed at this stage. It is in > principle happy with also making the data available on the ODbL > licence but > would make a final decision when the text for the licence is made > available. > > This data would be made available in XML or CSV formats as per > published standards here: > http://www.naptan.org.uk/ > http://www.nptg.org.uk/ > > The process of releasing the data would be as follows: > > A trusted technical team (possibly consisting of one person) with OSM > is identified > An import process will be designed by the team and agreed with the > contact person at the DfT > The department will then release a copy of NaPTAN and NPTG to a > nominated individual for the purpose of entering the agreed data into > OSM in the agreed format. > On completion of the import the source datasets would be deleted. > > I think you will all agree that this is a major opportunity for the > OSM-GB project > and one which we should respond to positively. > > I (Peter Miller/PeterIto) will make the introduction and will be happy > to be on the > team but am not offering to do the bulk of the technical work. > > This work is supported in this work by 'IdeasInTransit' which is a > five year research project funded by the UK government examining "what > happens when people > and the power of the crowd come together with technology to address > the transport challenges faced by individuals and society". > http://ideasintransit.org/ > > I have added the key points from this post to a new NaPTAN wiki page > where we can discuss the implications of this opportunity and how we > take advantage of it. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN > > > Regards > > > Peter Miler > ITO World Ltd > ---- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Kyle Gordon - 2M1DIQ Web: http://lodge.glasgownet.com Jabber/Email/SIP: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
