[Tagging] Tourist bus stop

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Sun Sep 15 21:45:59 UTC 2019



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> On 12. Sep 2019, at 02:44, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree that "[motor]coach=" might have been clearer, but I'm ok with
> keeping "tourist_bus=*" since it may actually be easier to translate
> into most languages, and "coach=*" can also be ambiguous, since it
> used to refer to horse-drawn vehicles and passenger railway cars, so
> "motorcoach" would have been needed. Also, some definitions of
> "coach=" seem to be limited to larger inter-city style buses, with
> seatbelts, individual seats instead of benches, etc.
> 
> See also https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:coach


I would use “motorbus” for the bus class, motorcar and motorcycle indicate there’s a system. The coach word seems more complicated and maybe only referring to some kind of buses. The term “Coach” should be avoided unless there are specific provisions for coaches (couldn’t find anything so far).

For access restrictions for public transport buses, “public_bus” would have been clearer than just “bus”, but I don’t think osm is going to change this...

For tourist_bus there might be a realistic (?) possibility to rename it to motorbus.  

Cheers Martin 




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