[Tagging] Feature proposal - RFC - hail and ride

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2017-05-04 6:14 GMT+02:00 Michael Tsang <miklcct at gmail.com>:

> I have made a proposal for “hail and ride” public transport routes:
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/hail_and_ride
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> From Wikipedia:
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> Hail and ride is boarding or alighting a mode of public transport by
> signalling the driver or conductor that one wishes to board or alight,
> rather than the more conventional system of using a designated stop.
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Maybe the description can be more explicit regarding the stops. Are there
any kind of stops or signs, or can you ask the bus to stop anywhere on the
route on these segments? Around here there are a lot of "request stops" in
the country side: you have to waive when the bus arrives or it won't stop
(unless someone is getting off naturally), but there is a pole with a sign
at these places (often not more infrastructure, i.e. no bench, waste basket
or shelter). It would be nice if you wrote something about this so that
people don't confuse these 2 systems (or is it the same?).

If you use a role for this kind of information you won't be able to add
other roles (but maybe this is fine, I am not sure about the current state
of the art in the different public transport route schemes, but believe the
preferred way is to use dedicated relations for forward and backward routes
and a relation to tie them together, so you won't need "forward" or
"backward" roles anyway).

Cheers,
Martin
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