[OSM-newbies] Proper way to plot bus routes

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Domingo, 30 de Marzo de 2008, Dylan Semler escribió:
> I'm considering plotting some bus routes in the US.  I was wondering what
> the preferred procedure was.  Do you make a new way and properly tag it as
> a bus route or do you add bus tags to the ways that define the streets that
> the bus travels along?

The "right" way is to use relations. Please read:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations/Routes

In a nutcase: you create all the roads (ways) and bus stops (nodes), 
then "link" them together with a relation - the relation itself holds the 
data specific about the bus route.

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