Peter Miller wrote: >Sent: 26 June 2009 4:41 PM >To: Thomas Wood >Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] [Talk-transit] NaPTAN and the new >PTtagging schema > > >Your suggestions below make a lot of sense. I would however very much >encourage you to include customary stops because they do indeed >'exist' even though there is no physical pole. Consider a road that >doesn't have a name plate but when you people who live on the street >what it is called they tell you. Does the street have a name or does >it not - I suggest we would agree that it does? If a tree falls in a >wood and there is no one to hear it did it make a sound etc. Customary >stops can be confirmed by looking for physical marks of vehicles >stopping or people standing around on the grass, from information at >the stop opposite or from asking bus drivers. I would suggest that for >now we believe NaPTAN.
These are easy to add in a final cleanup anyway, just by usage of the route. The problem with the NaPTan data is that there are loads of stops that are probably just not used at all, hence we leave them turned off (silent data). I agree that we could and probably should import customary stops but I don't think we should assume they are actual in-use stops and hence should leave them silent in the database until someone confirms and adds highway=bus_stop For other areas of the country I think its fine (with the exception of CUS stops) to go ahead straight away and add the highway=bus_stop where there are few existing mapped stops. Ideally a post to the local uses in the area would confirm either way what they would like to do. Beyond that the only bit of data I dislike from the original run is the unverified=yes tag. It would be better to change this to verified=no for future imports (and easy to swap in West Mids.) Otherwise my experience in Brum is generally good in that with the exception of location (which is 10m to 100m off at least 50% of the time) the NaPTAN data matches the data on the ground very well. I know Brian and others have documented a few oddities here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN_Error_Log Cheers Andy > >Traveline would strongly advocate for their inclusion so that OSM >links seamlessly to their journey planners. > > >Regards, > > > >Peter > > > > >On 26 Jun 2009, at 16:21, Thomas Wood wrote: > >> 2009/6/24 Peter Miller <[email protected]>: >>> >>> On 24 Jun 2009, at 18:20, Thomas Wood wrote: >>> >>>> 2009/6/24 Peter Miller <[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>> Can I suggest that we treat this import and any final tagging as a >>>>> separate >>>>> issue on separate timeline from the NaPTAN import just so long as >>>>> no >>>>> important information in the NaPTAN DB is lost in the process. >>>> >>>> Can you clarify what you meant by this? >>>> Is it essentially that we don't care about the new tagging schema >>>> and >>>> get on with the import? >>> >> >>> Yes. I would suggest that to avoid trying to agree a new tagging >>> arrangement >>> in a hurry prior to the import and keep the two projects separate. >>> Firstly >>> we import the rest of NaPTAN as agreed in the original discussion, >>> and then >>> secondly we agree a harmonised tagging arrangement of some sort and >>> convert >>> all the data to this new format (including the NaPTAN import). >>> >>> btw, did you mean this to be off-list? Feel free to copy the thread >>> to the >>> list if it was a mistake. >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> >>> Peter >> >> Ok, then to get on with the import, we need to review the errors we >> made with the Birmingham trail, and to get their views on the data >> review process - was it a good idea to import things without the >> highway=bus_stop tag, to get people to add them themselves? >> >> I think the one other outstanding issue is how we should represent the >> CUS stop types, at present in the 'active' tagging mode, they'll >> appear as fully-fledged highway=bus_stop nodes, like every other bus >> stop type, but with the addition of naptan:BusStopType=CUS, as (a >> rather obscure) indicator to the fact they may not exist. >> >> And then finally, we need to think about how we roll this out, county >> at a time is the most obvious step, I think we order the import based >> on requests on the transit list, followed by requests on talk-gb, with >> a target date to import the rest by. >> >> And on the technical front, I'm going to have to make sure that the >> import tools I'm using are 0.6-capable. >> >> I'm copying this over to the west-mids list so we can get their >> responses. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Thomas Wood >> (Edgemaster) > > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
