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