2009/2/17 Thomas Wood <[email protected]>: > 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.
The 5 nodes that the WestMids NaPTAN data has for Birmingham International Station are all BCT/MKD (which means marked on-street stop) I'm guessing there's more nodes for the station, but they'll be in the National Rail extract. -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
