On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM <sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> c) The best approach would be to host current NaPTAN data in a location > where OSM data can be compared & then mappers could choose to import it. > Having an application which did this would be way more useful than > shoehorning NaPTAN data in on its own. Potlatch2 has the ability to read appropriately-preprocessed Vector Background layers, which allows mappers to pick and choose which bits of a datasource to "import" and where to simply copy tags over. It's a promising approach to follow. > You can see this where a NaPTAN stop & a previously mapped stop exist close > together. An import will either sit in the database gathering dust, or it > will impose a substantial workload on local mappers if they want to check > it. I've found this in swathes of south London - pairs of naptan and non-naptan bus stops along major roads, suggesting that it's been years of things not being fixed up before I noticed. I was quite surprised to see that given that London is one of our most actively-mapped areas! Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb