[Tagging] Route relations - Forward & Backward

[Jo]

This is one example:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3612781

This is another:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3908930

Jo


2014-09-05 21:07 GMT+02:00 Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>:

> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Most bus routes in Belgium have several variations. Most have at least 2.
>> One from A to B, another from B to A. To me it makes most sense to create
>> one route relation for each variation, which contains all the stops in the
>> order they will be passed by. Occasionally it happens stops occur more than
>> once.
>>
>
> Plus, unless we're talking Greyhound where the bus pulls off into a
> station (even if makeshift) most of the time, or Eugene's EmX (BRT system
> with doors on both sides, essentially light rail minus the rail; busses
> have signs on the back indicating that they need approximately an entire
> time zone to turn right and many downtown Eugene intersections have been
> modified to allow for their gigantic turning radius), the terminus of the
> line, or a major bus station, the odds that both directions are going to
> use exactly the same stop is pretty close to zero.
>
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