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Dear all,</div>
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I'm looking for community consensus about minibus routes (public transport routes which are operated by light passenger vehicles of roughly 8 to 20 seats with no standing allowed in general). As of present, there are two kinds of tagging for minibus routes:</div>
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A. route=minibus (~30 routes around the world)</div>
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B. route=bus & bus=minibus (~300 routes around the world)</div>
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None of the tags seem to have widespread usage.</div>
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Currently I can't see any renderer support for both tagging. For option A, no renderer shows them at all. For option B, they are shown as regular bus routes.</div>
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Moreover, I can think of different regulatory scenarios, which may match the different usage:</div>
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X. The minibus services are regulated as a separate class of service to full-sized bus routes, with different operators, network and fare structures, which may even with numbers overlapping (e.g. a minibus route 25 and another full sized bus route 25 serving
the same area)</div>
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Y. The minibus services form a part of the bus network but with distinct identities (e.g. a range of numbers reserved for minibus routes and another range for full sized bus routes, with different fare scales but still in the integrated ticket structure)</div>
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Z. There are no distinction in the branding between bus and minibus services, the vehicle used mainly depend on the environment.</div>
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Tagging A will match scenario X and tagging B will match scenario Z, with scenario Y in between in my thinking.</div>
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I'm looking for input how other people map their minibus routes, and how are their routes regulated.</div>
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Regards,</div>
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Michael</div>
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