On 22/11/11 22:26, Graham Jones wrote:
Hi,
I just found a node tagged with lots of things to do with naptan. It looks like it should be a bus stop, but there is no highway=bus_stop tag on it. (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/471495304).

I just wonder what to do with it - can either add highway=bus_stop because it was probably supposed to have that on it, or delete it because it does not seem to be doing anything. I would just like to do something with it because it is turning up as a possible brewery on the BrewMap.....

Any thoughts? I don't know how the naptan data was imported to know if this is a common problem or not?

Natpan imports were imported at the request of local mappers, in the hope that they would be verified - many have not been. The Naptan tags do convey information about the stop that needs checking and sometimes correcting. I checked a lot of stops and forwarded the results of my checking to the local council (councils feed the data into the Naptan database). At first they seemed interested but as the financial belt tightened they seem less so.

The stop has no highway=bus_stop tag because it is a customary stop (naptan:BusStopType = CUS). If you do survey any of these and you find a bus stop sign, add a highway=bus_stop too. If you check the details on a survey you can then remove the naptan:verified = no tag. Check the street names - they can be useful indicators about road names especially in rural roads. The naptan:Bearing = W on that tag looks dodgy, because buses leaving tha stop would be heading north east (ish). I don't think that CUS tag is right in that case either because the naptan:Indicator = opp means there is a sign on the opposite side of the road so it is not really a customary stop, but that could be a Suffolk convention - every county uses the rules in their own way.

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Cheers, Chris
user: chillly


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