[Tagging] route/forward/backward members in all types of routes

[Fernando Trebien]

Since you brought this up, where I live there is a bus network for
which people can hail anywhere. Mostly. There are some parts of town,
such as in downtown, in which there are specific stops for this
service. In most areas it is completely at the passengers' will. This
network coexists with another network for which people can only board
from designated stops.

Moovit supports that service by >> assuming << that users may only
hail from regular bus stops - probably the only way they could make it
work with their journey planner. Should something similar be done in
OSM? (I believe it should not, but anyway.)

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/01/2018 12:00, Georg Feddern wrote:
>>
>> I am quite sure that in _reality_ a stop _or_ a platform is mandatory in a
>> public transport route - otherwise you would just have a route with
>> 'hitchhiking'?
>
>
> In the real world, that happens.  As well as public transport routes with
> _only_ the route defined (no stops) there are also those with _only_ the
> stops defined and the driver decides how to get to the next one base on
> traffic.  Also there are "request" routes where there are defined stops, but
> not in a defined order.  The above examples all exist in the UK, but think
> about public transport worldwide (minibus taxis in South Africa, for
> example) and things aren't always quite so "nailed down" as they might be
> elsewhere.
>
> Best Regards,
> Andy
>
>
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