Hi Harry NOVAM was developed by christ...@b3e.net when he was a student at Birmingham University. NOVAM stands for NAPTAN OSM View And Maintain It would be good to get this back online again. Good luck!
Regards Brian On 4 February 2017 at 12:07, Harry Wood <m...@harrywood.co.uk> wrote: > I was thinking of embarking on some development work to re-examine the > NaPTAN dataset myself. We regularly consume this dataset at TransportAPI, > so I have some code which works with Stops.csv > > The NoVAM viewer http://www.mappa-mercia.org/novam is currently broken. > Probably easy to fix. It's trying to do XAPI calls to an instance which is > "forbidden". Can we move that codebase into github and bring it back to > life?Why was it called Novam? > > Anyway I think this had the right idea of doing comparisons and making it > clear which data was changed when. It could be extended to allow selective > import too I imagine. > > I'd like to render a more of a UK-wide perspective, so we can see more > visually, where data was imported. Also I want to see visually how many > stops have been "corrected" by OSMers since import, and I want to do a > comparison between naptan versions, to see how many of the stops have > changed position within NaPTAN over the years (and find where these updates > are not within OpenStreetMap yet. Grimsby town centre used to be a big > example of this before I fixed it) > > Harry > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Brian Prangle <bpran...@gmail.com> > *To:* Talk GB <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> > *Sent:* Friday, 3 February 2017, 17:52 > *Subject:* [Talk-GB] Propose automated edit to update NAPTAN data in the > west mids > > Hi everyone > > We have an opportunity to work with the regional transport authority TfWM > to update this data which is 8 years old and partially edited by OSM users. > They have assigned 2 developers to work on this and I'm spending a half day > each week working with them. > > We've agreed and discussed this in our mappa mercia group and also > contacted a prolific local public transport OSM editor who's not part of > our group. > > In line with the automated edits policy there's a wikipage > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_Edit_West_Midlands_NAPTAN_data> > with full details > > Comments welcome as this exercise might be useful elswhere as the state of > NAPTAN data will be in a similar state > > regards > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > >
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