National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN)

Posted By DFT on 19/03/2010 - 18:06

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NaPTAN is a GB national system for uniquely identifying all the points of access to public transport in GB. It is a core component of the GB national transport information infrastructure and is used by a number of other UK standards and information systems. Every GB station, coach terminus, airport, ferry terminal, bus stop, etc., is allocated at least one identifier.

Overview

Released
2010-07-01
Last updated
2010-07-01
Update frequency
Quarterly
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Department Department for Transport
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Details

Name
naptan
Licence
OKD Compliant::UK Crown Copyright with data.gov.uk rights
Version
-
Geographic coverage
Geographical granularity
Great Britain, Local Authority Administrative Area
Temporal granularity
days
Agency
Transport Direct
Precision
+/- 1 metre spatial accuracy of Ordnance Survey Grid Reference
Taxonomy url
-
Temporal coverage to
-
Temporal coverage from
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Categories
Transport, Geospatial

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Team
Transport Direct

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Comments (12)

MetroReferences CSV File

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 24/08/2010 - 08:51.

The MetroReferences.csv file is empty. Does anyone know of another source for this data in csv format or is is it currently not available? Thanks

Re: Identifiers

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 12/08/2010 - 13:48.

I think all stops (including bus, train and more) have ATCO codes, which are sometimes mentioned on the timetable printout at the stop. These are unique, alphanumeric identifiers.

Many stops also have a separate NaPTAN ID, which is the same as the Traveline txt-code often displayed at a stop as well. If a NaPTAN code exists for a stop, it will be unique. I think these are letters only.

Identifiers?

Submitted by PPL on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 13:14.

What identifiers would you use for a bus stop?

Still confused with licensing

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 28/05/2010 - 13:23.

I'm still confused with the licensing here. Can this be used for commercial or semi commercial use?

licensing

Submitted by phil on Tue, 01/06/2010 - 09:30.

Hello, please see the earlier post in relation to this - the license for this data set has been updated to refer to the data.gov.uk terms of use, which can be found here:

http://data.gov.uk/terms-and-conditions

This should answer your enquiry but please do get in touch if you still have any questions, either via the website or by email - team@data.gov.uk

Many thanks,

Phil

Isn't it Access Node (in the

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 24/03/2010 - 23:46.

Isn't it Access Node (in the singular)?

Contradictory licensing

Submitted by Steven Chamberlain on Tue, 23/03/2010 - 22:48.

I've noticed another problem here; the downloadable XML metadata's 'license' tag refers only to the DfT Terms of Use, which prohibits commercial uses; this page however says that data.gov.uk rights apply (which encourage commercial use). So, which is it? Please clarify this.

metadata license reference updated

Submitted by phil on Mon, 24/05/2010 - 11:20.

Hi, just to say that the license reference in the meta data has been updated to bring it in line with the data.gov.uk data license agreement.

Thanks,

Phil

Commercial reuse of this dataset

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 22/03/2010 - 11:50.

The linked terms of use seem to exclude commercial use: "Use of Data - Use of the NaPTAN data is subject to license by the Department of Transport. Public Sector and Commercial Licences are available. Fees may be charged for Commercial Licenses. "

I also notice that these terms of use were last update in August 2009: "Page last updated: 06.08.2009"

I assume that these terms will now be adjusted to fit with data.gov.uk aspiration that commerical use is allowed taken from the data.gov.uk FAQ: "Q. What are the commercial use rights if people have commercial ideas? A. Crown Copyright enables you to use all our data for commercial purposes. We are delighted that you see a commercial opportunity in using our data.

Steven Chamberlain

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 23/03/2010 - 00:21.

Re: Commercial reuse of this dataset

I take "License: UK Crown Copyright with data.gov.uk rights" to imply that it can be used under the standard data.gov.uk terms, despite anything the 'Terms of Use' page may say to the contrary. So I'd assume commercial or any other use is permitted provided that the correct attribution is given to the copyright holder (the Crown).

Commercial reuse of this dataset

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 22/03/2010 - 17:12.

It's worth noting that openstreetmap has been given explicit permissions to import this data and hence make it available as CC-BY-SA

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN

Commercial reuse of this dataset

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 23/03/2010 - 18:17.

Not quite - The release to OpenStreetMap was great, however it was a single release of that subset of the data that OpenStreetMap wished to import with updates from time to time. There was no guaranteed regular update and the release was designed to not impact on the sale of the DB itself to other parties; and anyone else who wanted the full clean DB would still have to go back to the DfT/Traveline and pay for it.

So... to be a valid entry in data.gov.uk the terms and conditions linked from this page still need to be sorted out and commercial use allowed.