2009/2/17 Brian Prangle <[email protected]>: > I've done a quick overview of the NAPTAN manual - never knew it would be so > complex and such a steep learning curve! Can I propose as a first step in > importing this data that we confine ourselves to onstreet stops? I'm unsure > about offstreet stops but we may have to do these as there will be towns and > cities where buses arrive and depart from bus stations which are "off > street" rather than from stops on the roads in city centres. For example, > it will be interesting to see how the bus stops at Birmingham International > Rail Station are classified - they're actually inside the building and > automatic doors open onto the street when the bus arrives - there are no > pavements. > > ( If we try to incorporate all the other data types (e.g taxi, air, ferry, > rail) at this stage I think it will just take too long - I think we should > leave them for subsequent phases. It would be good to get something up > reasonably quickly). > > Once we've agreed on onstreet/offstreet we need then to agree on what fields > we need to import and how to tag them in OSM - a start has already been made > at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Tag_mappings. > > So fire away on opinions on restricting the import to bus stops for this > phase and onstreet/offstreet > > Brian
+1, it simplifies stuff a bit. But, in the meantime, I've got my importer to create nodes now (!), I'll run a dumb convert of everything in the Birmingham area to see what the data there's like. -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
