[Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Andy Allan
Some of you might have seen mention of new datasets being released (today, apparently, but I can't find them yet) by the DfT http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8844733/Publishing-road-works-cycle-routes-and-car-parking-data-will-finally-get-Britain-moving.html Obviously my main interest is

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Ed Loach
Andy wrote: Some of you might have seen mention of new datasets being released (today, apparently, but I can't find them yet) by the DfT http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8844733/Publishing-road-wo rks-cycle-routes-and-car-parking-data-will-finally-get-Britain-movin g.html

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: Not that I'm aware of. From the ones I've seen so far, the geocoding isn't exactly great for them, so I suspect they've been geocoded using the address or postcode. Gah, now that I look at the actual carpark data

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Ed Loach
I've been working on some features in Potlatch 2 so that we can inspect, consider and merge the cycling data attributes into OSM on a street-by-street basis. I've just been looking at the cycle data. While the dataset is licenced as OGL (or as the metadata says Crown Copyright with

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: Not that I'm aware of. From the ones I've seen so far, the geocoding isn't exactly great for them, so I suspect they've been geocoded using the

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Hughes
On 25/10/11 12:12, Andy Allan wrote: Gah, now that I look at the actual carpark data instead of just looking at the telegraph's map, there's not actually any coordinates in the dataset at all. Silly me. Yes there are: AccessPoints

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 25 October 2011 12:11, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: Is anyone looking at the car parks data in a similar method to the cycle data as mentioned in the cyclestreets blog post? I've downloaded it, but I'm guessing

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: I've been working on some features in Potlatch 2 so that we can inspect, consider and merge the cycling data attributes into OSM on a street-by-street basis. I've just been looking at the cycle data. While the dataset is

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Ed Loach
As for the potlatch 2 code, it's worth clarifying that both the merging code (in potlatch2) and the serverside code for accessing it per-bbox [1] only deals with OSM format data, not GML. The work for converting it from GML into .osm is contracted to the people who actually understand the

Re: [Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

2011-10-25 Thread Tom Hughes
On 25/10/11 13:22, Ed Loach wrote: So if I, or someone else, writes something that parses the car parks GML into OSM format tagging, is there someone and/or somewhere it could be uploaded it to for people to use, do you know? If so then I might look at a wiki page to discuss the mapping(s).