The update has been completed now. It's changeset 3194365 on the NaPTAN account.
Cheers, Christoph Christoph Böhme <christ...@b3e.net> schrieb: > Hi, > > I plan to do an update of the NaPTAN bus stops in Birmingham to bring > them in line with the imports in the rest of the country. The update > will make the following changes: > > 1. All naptan:unverified=yes tags are changed to naptan:verified=no. > This will make maintenance of the colour schemes in Novam easier. > 2. naptan:unverified=no tags are removed. I think this makes more > sense than replacing them with naptan:verified=yes. > 3. naptan:AdministrativeAreaRef tags will be removed as they have only > been used in the Birmingham import and nowhere else. So the tag is > quite useless (tagwatch lists 105 as the only value for the tag). > 4. naptan:Bearing tags will be added to all NaPTAN stops that do not > have them yet (i.e. the stops in Birmingham). > 5. naptan:BusStopType=CUS will be added when available and not yet > existing. > > I am currently making the finishing touches on the import script and > will test it then. So, if there are no objections against the changes > the update should ready to go ahead in a couple of days. > > Method used for the update: > > I extracted atco-code, bearing, and bus stop type with an xsl script > from the NaPTAN xml file for the West Midlands and placed the data > into a new table in the Novam database. > > Since Novam maintains an up-to-date extract of all bus stops in OSM > the bus stops which need be updated can easily be selected and joined > with the new data in the table created before. > > Finally, a python script goes through the selected bus stops, applies > the modifications outlined above to each them, and uploads them > through the python osm api to OSM. If the upload fails due to a > version conflict the latest version of the bus stop is retrieved from > OSM and the script changes this node and uploads it again. > > The scripts are currently tailored to add and remove some tags from > the Birmingham bus stops. However, I think this update might be a > helpful step towards more complex updates of the NaPTAN data in OSM. > > Cheers, > Christoph > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > talk-tran...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit _______________________________________________ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
