﻿ Dft - NPTG - Index  NPTG (National Public Transport Gazetteer)
Welcome to NPTG  The National Public Transport Gazetteer
provides a topographic database of towns and settlements in the
UK; it provides a common frame of reference for the National
Public Access Nodes (NaPTAN) schema and other UK Public
Transport Information schemas such as JourneyWeb.  The
appropriate naming of towns and places is vital for providing
effective place and stop finding in modern on-line journey
planners and other Passenger Information systems. The NPTG XML
schema is used to distribute topographic data from the NPTG
database to the local Administrative Areas who administer NaPTAN
data, as well as other downstream PT information systems such as
journey planners.  An ancillary schema, the NPTG Discovery XML
schema, is used to exchange data that relates topographical
localities with the available computer information services. The
NPTG Discovery schema can be used for the automatic provisioning
and system configuration of systems, f