Quarterly Project 2021Q3

Tourism sounds like a great theme, it's a well documented tagging area, and it will have big impact on people's desire to use the map if it has the latest activities. Lots of people holidaying inside the country this year including OSMUK members I'm sure.

.. a 'fill in the gaps' footpath mapping project - there are areas where say 80% of the footpaths have been mapped on the ground but the other 20% not, because the map 'looks' completed and no-one has targeted the area.

... or, a 'map your local permissive footpaths' project, one great advantage we have over OS which doesn't show all of them.

... 'local' being a fairly wide definition, maybe other areas within your county as it's likely that you will have mapped all the permissive paths in your immediate vicinity!

Obviously, my suggestion is going to be a nationwide NaPTAN data refresh and other public transport stuff

I feel like 90% of the NaPTAN stuff could be done by 1 person going through the imports process. NGL the imports process is the reason I haven't already done it, the technical bit should be fairly straight forward.

I had a similar idea as Jay Turner - verify whats on the ground in terms of bus routes and stops. Last weekend Burnley Transport part of Transdev with Lancashire CC inaugurated Ribble Country, it is a new series of routes, amendments and deletions branded Ribble Country Network. I intend to start mapping some of it but I dont have the smarts to handle updating with GTFS. Their website provides OpenData https://www.transdevbus.co.uk/open-data as GTFS from NaPTAN (it also uses OSM basemap on which to overlay their routes).

CJ Malone thinks it is easy going through the imports process - honest it isn't. I would like to see a working party define and build a process that could reliably update buses. In the meantime flag whats wrong so it's a marker for maintenance, I know PT relations are fiddly so marking for maintenance is great for those who are happy fiddling with PT relations.

I wasn't suggesting imports is easy, the opposite, it's the burden that's stopped me updating NaPTAN data in OSM. I've just converted the bus stops from Transdev into GeoJSON, you should be able to open it and process it in JOSM now.

Conflating that lot will keep me quiet for a week or so . . . . 🙂

I used to use the TransXChange format open data from the tnds ftp site to keep local bus routes updated. It appears to be moving to a download from https://data.bus-data.dft.gov.uk/timetable/download/ instead, which also has a GTFS option. I am still experimenting as the data doesn't seem to be the same (I downloaded the latest data again yesterday evening to see if anything changed, but a week or two back I was investigating the HEDO 136 which runs near here, and the TransXChange data and the companies website says the route variants are the same Monday to Saturday, but GTFS has different routes for Saturday than Monday to Friday). So I've stopped updating locally (Tendring when first unsure about the data, Essex when happy) until I can be sure what data I can trust.

Addresses in Northern Ireland.

I think this would be better as a winter one, but what is peoples opinions on a QP that targets a specific area instead of a topic that can be covered everywhere?

This has gotten away from us again, please give any other ideas soon.

So far ideas which have shown some traction include:

Recycling/waste processing

Tourism data/attributes

Public ROW/paths/ways - focus on gap filling ?

Public transport network conflation/ data improvement