[Tagging] Tourist bus stop

[Jo]

What about long_distance_bus, if you don't like coach? motorbus doesn't
really convey much information. All buses we are talking about have a
motor. The only exception I can think of is this Italian pedibus, which
isn't really a bus at all. (Accompanied children who take the same
itinerary on a daily basis on their way to school).

When I saw the initial conversation in Italian, I thought the person asking
was asking about coach buses that were transporting tourists on an on
demand, or on group reservation basis. For such buses there are dedicated
areas where they can load / unload people, but that's more like parking.

In fact, if we're talking about Flixbus, Eurolines, Greyhound, etc. I think
highway=bus_stop is just fine. Add a tag for operator or network and it's
obvious and clear those are not bus stops for the local bus lines.

Polyglot

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 11:47 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> sent from a phone
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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
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>
> 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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