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UrbanRuralMy Experience of working with the DataColin Broderick
Introduction
Who am I?
UrbanRural?
Consuming the NaPTAN Export (challenging!).
The Challenges and Joys of working with Open DATA
Who am I?
Spatial Planner, Map Nerd and Open DATA dabbler
UrbanRural - what is it?An app to help you find your local heritage.
UrbanRural - what’s the problem?Who here has ever had to look through a development plan?
Protected Structures and Built Heritage are buried in the maps and in a table in the appendix
UrbanRural - what’s the problem?
RPS, Dublin City Development Plan 2011 - 2017
UrbanRural - what’s the problem?
Swords Map, Fingal County Development Plan 2011 - 2017
UrbanRural - what’s the problem?
Interactive Mapping - South Dublin County Development Plan 2011 - 2017
So you find the building - what next?
The End
UrbanRural - let’s solve this!Educate people about their local built heritage.
Help promote the built heritage of Ireland (Fingal).
Help improve peoples understanding of protected structures.
UrbanRural - The DATAFingal Protected structure list (csv)
Fingal NIAH Survey
Google Maps (api)
Google Places (api)
UrbanRural - What’s it look like?
UrbanRural - What’s it look like?
Map &
Search
RPS Deta
ils
NIAH Deta
ils
And it works on your phone
RPS DATA - The Problems
Even within DubLinked no one is releasing the same data.
Formats are Different - Fingal does csv’s with extra information.
The rest of the counties are shapefiles with no extra data appended
NaPTANWhat is NaPTAN I hear you say?
It’s “a database system for uniquely identifying all the points of access to public transport in the UK” (DTF, UK)
It stands for the National Public Transport Access Nodes
It sets the standards of how the information should be exchanged (xml & csv)
Its main use is in making Journey Planners
Why was I interested in this?
What does it look like?
Mean a whole lot to you?
So what’s the best thing to do? Map it!
Final Product
Not all plain sailing
Not all of co-ordinates are using the same projection so its looks a bit like this.
I don’t have access to MS Access or ArcGIS
QGIS to the rescue on my dads laptop, able to extract the data in the proper format and made a bunch of csv files.
The world covered in measles
Suggestions
That the NTA release this data in the other release format of a suite of csv files.
Maybe DubLinked could take the lead in defining the standards for data sharing in terms of
file formats
information
Hope this was interesting for you!
Thank you!
@rusty1052