[Talk-gb-midanglia] SotM 2011 UK? Setting up a GB OSMF chapter?

2010-10-24 Thread Gregory
When the SotM 2011 venue bids were coming in, it seemed likely it would finally leave Europe. I heard some chatter that maybe it would make sense to hold a national/continent conference (like there is SotM US). Who is in support of that? What sort of numbers do you think it would attract? You all

[Talk-GB] NaPTAN station codes

2010-10-24 Thread osm
We're importing the location of bus stops from NaPTAN, can we also load the NaPTAN codes for railway stations? All the GB railway stations are in OSM, but they're just identified by name. For example my local station: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/492098581 It is tagged like this:

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN station codes

2010-10-24 Thread Thomas Wood
On 10/24/10 20:26, o...@edwardbetts.com wrote: We're importing the location of bus stops from NaPTAN, can we also load the NaPTAN codes for railway stations? snip http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN says the dataset is Crown copyright but we have special permission to load it into OSM as

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN station codes

2010-10-24 Thread Ed Avis
o...@... writes: We're importing the location of bus stops from NaPTAN, can we also load the NaPTAN codes for railway stations? I'd like to add the NaPTAN code to every station, using the same tag as bus stops, 'naptan:AtcoCode'. For example Nailsea and Backwell would be tagged like this:

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN station codes

2010-10-24 Thread kevin
Great idea, but don't forget to think about any consequences of the likely license change. If the data is not available under the new licence the data will be removed from the main database and consigned to a pre-change mirror which won't be maintained. Which I guess also applies to the

Re: [Talk-GB] SotM 2011 UK? Setting up a GB OSMF chapter?

2010-10-24 Thread SomeoneElse
On 24/10/2010 18:15, Gregory wrote: I hope the mapping passion isn't sliding away from the UK. Whether people can get around to organising a conference isn't necessarily related to whether they're still keen on mapping or not. Maybe the weather this summer was too good? Cheers, Andy

Re: [Talk-GB] NaPTAN station codes

2010-10-24 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 24 Oct 2010, at 21:41, Andy Mabbett wrote: On 24 October 2010 21:12, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: o...@... writes: We're importing the location of bus stops from NaPTAN, can we also load the NaPTAN codes for railway stations? National Rail seems to use a three-letter code for