On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 1:02 PM Gareth L <[email protected]> wrote: > Forgive me if this is silly question/statement, but the adj/alt names etc > are in the naptan dataset. Wouldn’t it be better to have the link made > between the stop in OSM and the record in naptan (using the codes prior > mentioned). > My thinking is data consumers could link and retrieve values using that. > Merging the extra data values again might potentially develop discrepancies > over time. > > I’d think the atco code is unique and (hopefully) not reused, but the alt > names etc could be modified over time. >
A perfectly valid question and something I wonder also. For example, the indicator field is somewhat meaningless to a data consumer unless they know what it represents as per the NaPTAN schema - so perhaps it's best left out of the OSM data?
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