[okfn-discuss] Great news for open government data in the UK

Tue Mar 23 10:37:12 UTC 2010

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org> wrote:
> On 22/03/2010 23:21, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>>   * open up of a large and important set of transport data (the NaPTAN
>> dataset) -- this was one of the government datasets listed as
>> ‘important but unavailable’ at our Workshop on Finding and Re-using
>> Public Information back in November 2008!
>
> FWIW NaPTAN was made available as a one-off to OpenStreetmap last year, so
> there has been a step on the way:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN

Indeed! See also:

  http://blog.okfn.org/2009/08/20/where-is-the-nearest-bus-stop-uk-department-for-transport-adds-naptan-data-to-open-street-map/

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