Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Summer 2017 July-Sept

2017-07-10 Thread Jez Nicholson
Dear All, Please be adding your snippets of knowledges, tag details, and activity descriptions to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2017_Q3_Project:_Bus_Route_Relations_%26_Station_Entrances so that the less initiated can pick a thing to do. Regards, Jez On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 at 2

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Summer 2017 July-Sept

2017-07-10 Thread Warin
On 11-Jul-17 03:03 AM, Andy Townsend wrote: On 10/07/2017 14:26, Stuart Reynolds wrote: I have also come across several styles of station tagging, even in my local (single line) area. What'd be really useful, actually, would someone pointing at a good "example station" in an OSM diary entry o

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Summer 2017 July-Sept

2017-07-10 Thread Brian Prangle
Done On 10 July 2017 at 13:48, Paul Berry wrote: > You have a volunteer in me. > > Do you want to start a page under https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_ > Quarterly_Project and I'll take it from there? > > Regards, > *Paul* > > On 10 July 2017 at 12:51, Brian Prangle wrote: > >> Hi everyone

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Summer 2017 July-Sept

2017-07-10 Thread Andy Townsend
On 10/07/2017 14:26, Stuart Reynolds wrote: I have also come across several styles of station tagging, even in my local (single line) area. What'd be really useful, actually, would someone pointing at a good "example station" in an OSM diary entry or similar and explain how the various bits a

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Summer 2017 July-Sept

2017-07-10 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi Ed ’n’ all. Couple of points. 1. Yes, you can download NaPTAN from data.gov under OGL. What you need to know for rail station entrances is that while the rail station data is all together with codes formed 9100 (e.g. 9100LHONSEA for Leigh-on-sea), the station entrances are

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Summer 2017 July-Sept

2017-07-10 Thread Ed Loach
Ew. Bus route relations are a real time consuming pain to maintain. It is possible to get both the Naptan data and the Traveline data under OGL https://data.gov.uk/dataset/traveline-national-dataset https://data.gov.uk/dataset/naptan (though one requires you to register for an ftp login to down

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Summer 2017 July-Sept

2017-07-10 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Can we also have some guidance, please, on how to tag station entrances. The wiki (at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railway_stations) seems to suggest that we should use railway=subway_entrance, but this upsets me on so many levels (pun intended) because the vast majority of UK station entr

Re: [Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Summer 2017 July-Sept

2017-07-10 Thread Paul Berry
You have a volunteer in me. Do you want to start a page under https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Quarterly_Project and I'll take it from there? Regards, *Paul* On 10 July 2017 at 12:51, Brian Prangle wrote: > Hi everyone > > This will be to improve bus route relations and station entrances

[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project Summer 2017 July-Sept

2017-07-10 Thread Brian Prangle
Hi everyone This will be to improve bus route relations and station entrances, by popular vote on OSMUK Loomio channel. Bus route relations can be tricky for the uninitiated ( and even for the initiated ) so perhaps this quarterly project could do with its own wiki page, pointing to existing tuto