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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Mar 27, 2019, 11:29 AM by fernando.trebien@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">Hello,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I find it strange to use highway=service without being able to add a<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">service=* to specify the type of service way, but that's how most BRTs<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">[1] are currently mapped, for example, TransJakarta, Bogota's<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">TransMilenio, and the Metrobus systems of Mexicy City and Buenos<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Aires.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I've seen service=busway applied to the ways of some BRTs [1], such as<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">in Los Angeles' Orange Line and Nantes' Line 4, and its usage has been<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">growing slowly, but it is not documented. On the other hand,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">service=bus is much more common, but the wiki discourages its use [2]<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">since 2017, although I could not find any discussion supporting this<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">change. <br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Given that warning was reaction to page claiming that this tag must be <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">added because unspecified renderer is broken I think that<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">no discussion was necessary to add the warning.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I edited the page now a bit.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left">It seems service=bus was used to compensate for "issues with a<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">routing engine" [2], but no other applications seem to support this<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">value, and maybe those app-related issues no longer exist.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">As of 2019, what do you think is the ideal/correct way of mapping<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">these bus corridors? Should service=* be avoided on them? Should<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">service=busway be documented? Should service=bus be replaced with<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">service=busway?<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">service=busway/bus seems OK to me (note, I am not a native speaker),<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">but I am not convinced that it would be very useful.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I would just set appropriate access tags.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I found also<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/368500255#map=19/50.04798/19.92933">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/368500255#map=19/50.04798/19.92933</a><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">with<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">bus:lanes:backward = designated<br>bus:lanes:forward = designated<br>psv:lanes:backward = designated<br>psv:lanes:forward = designated</div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">I am not sure is it an optimal lane tagging, but in general lane tagging may be<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">useful here, maybe more than a new service tag (or in addition to).<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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