[Tagging] Route relations - Forward & Backward

[Jo]

I hope noboby is still using the older way of adding bus routes for adding
new bus routes to OSM.

Jo




2014-09-06 8:33 GMT+02:00 Jo <winfixit at gmail.com>:

> If that is the case, then this street will be present in some variations
> of the bus routes for that line and the parallel street will be a member in
> the other set of variations.
>
> An example:
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3389343
>
> You'll have to click on the route relations in this route_master. Where
> the routes go over the highway between Brussels and Leuven and Leuven and
> Aarschot, it's obvious they are using the side of the highways which goes
> in their direction of travel.
>
> Hopefully this clarifies what I mean by variations. This one has 4, 2 in
> each direction.
>
> Jo
>
>
> 2014-09-06 5:59 GMT+02:00 John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>:
>
>> If a bus route makes use of a one-way street, then the bus can only go
>> one direction on that street. A pedestrian can go in either direction on a
>> one-way street, and a bicycle may be able to do so, depending upon local
>> traffic laws. Even if a given street allows two-way traffic, the bus route
>> may use that street in a single direction, with the reverse route using a
>> parallel street.
>>
>>
>> On September 5, 2014 7:39:17 AM CDT, "Dave F." <davefox at madasafish.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/09/2014 12:31, Jo wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  In bus route relations the ways don't get roles.
>>>
>>>
>>> Why's that? How would you tag a circular route that goes only clockwise?
>>>
>>>  In this case some ways would be members twice.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> As the Relation's IDs aren't necessarily consecutive, how does a router
>>> know which to follow? Or is there a way to sort them into order?
>>>
>>>  In walking and cycling route relations we do use them. Those are
>>>>  bidirectional, whereas the bus and tram routes describe start to
>>>>  terminus for all variations.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm
>>> unsure how you can suggest bus routes aren't bidirectional. They can
>>> go both ways along a way the same as walkers/cyclists.
>>>
>>> Dave F.
>>>
>>>
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