On 18 Aug 2009, at 01:07, Bryce McKinlay wrote: > Thank you very much for your efforts on this, Thomas, and everyone > else involved - I've been waiting for the London import for a while, > and it's fantastic to see this data in OSM!
+1 > > I have one "bug" to report: Is it possible that special characters are > being dropped from the stop names during the import? For example: > > <node id="469789137" lat="51.5122005" lon="-0.1420652" version="1" > changeset="2177128" user="NaPTAN" uid="104459" visible="true" > timestamp="2009-08-17T13:40:06Z"> > <tag k="name" v="Conduit Street Saville Row"/> > <tag k="naptan:CommonName" v="Conduit Street Saville Row"/> > ... > > TfL refers to this as "Conduit Street / Saville Row", so it seems the > "/" characters are going missing somewhere? The data in NaPTAN does not include the '/' actually, probably because of the work being done to standardise stop naming across the UK in NaPTAN. In particular to discourage stop naming of the form 'street/ cross street' and the use of some characters including /. In this case the slash has gone but the cross street naming remains. > > Also, I'm curious whether, in addition to the bus stop data, NaPTAN > contains precise locations for Underground station exits, and if so, > whether there is any plan to import these? OSM often contains only one > node for stations that have multiple exits, and in some cases the node > is ambiguously placed such that it isn't clear which street (or which > side of the street) an exit is on. This level of precision does become > significant when producing walking maps/directions... Yes there are entrances in NaPTAN. For example there are 8 entrances given for Oxford Street Underground station. There are also platforms information, but no indication about which platform they relate to. Can I suggest we complete the import of bus stops import into OSM first and then go back for another trawl through the data and get more detail? Peter > > Bryce > > > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Thomas Wood<[email protected] > > wrote: >> I've only just realised that my previous message regarding the >> imports >> beginning only went to talk-gb and talk-gb-london. >> >> Greater London is now imported as changeset 2177128. >> I was planning to import Hull and Suffolk also this week. >> >> Now that we're importing the data, we really need to get our >> guidelines on how to merge and tidy the data sorted. I've pulled out >> the relevant pieces from the Birmingham wikipage out to >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN/Surveying_and_Merging_NaPTAN_and_OSM_data >> It really needs to be tidied and beaten into a useful document before >> we let more people loose with the data. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Thomas Wood >> (Edgemaster) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-transit mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
