Great idea, but don't forget to think about any consequences of the likely license change. If the data is not available under the new licence the data will be removed from the main database and consigned to a pre-change mirror which won't be maintained. Which I guess also applies to the imports done to date?
Kevin ------Original Message------ From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: 24 Oct 2010 20:26 Subject: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN station codes We're importing the location of bus stops from NaPTAN, can we also load the NaPTAN codes for railway stations? All the GB railway stations are in OSM, but they're just identified by name. For example my local station: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/492098581 It is tagged like this: name: Nailsea and Backwell railway: station source: GPX + NPE The name is fragile thing to link on, somebody might change the 'and' to '&'. I'd like to add the NaPTAN code to every station, using the same tag as bus stops, 'naptan:AtcoCode'. For example Nailsea and Backwell would be tagged like this: naptan:AtcoCode: 9100NAILSEA In NaPTAN all railway stations codes start with 9100. http://data.gov.uk/dataset/nptdr The recently released National Public Transport Data Repository (NPTDR) uses NaPTAN codes to refer to bus stops and stations. Making it easy to match NPTDR data with railway stations in OSM would be a good thing. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN says the dataset is Crown copyright but we have special permission to load it into OSM as CC-BY-SA. Would that include adding the NaPTAN codes to railway stations? Would this bulk import have to be done by the NaPTAN user, or would it be okay for me to use my account to load the data? http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/NaPTAN -- Edward. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
