[Tagging] Tourist bus stop

[Jo]

In my own city we have an electric train like bus that has a few stops and
is specifically meant for tourists. Not double decker with an open roof and
it's slow, but OK. It has an itinerary and dedicated hop on/hop off stops.
I would like to be able to map it.

I would also like to be able to map the stops/waiting areas of those long
distance bus lines. At the moment, I was simply using highway=bus_stop for
them and an approximate itinerary.

Polyglot

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 12:47 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> btw.: those "sightseeing buses" that have been mentioned before, might
> merit their own tags, too. In Rome these are quite common (hence locals
> don't like them because they are competing for space in the traffic), they
> are not public transport (I guess they can not use bus lanes for example),
> but they are different from "regular" coaches too. Usually these are open
> on the top, you buy a ticket to use them for a certain time (1-2 days) and
> they follow routes and have stops (dedicated, not shared with public
> transport) and you can hop on and off as much as you want. They are typical
> for tourist destinations, e.g. can be found in Seville, Edinburgh, Paris,
> Palma de Mallorca, Malaga, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Athens, Dublin, Lisbon,
> Budapest, Brussels (just to copy from one of the companies, surely there
> will be similar offerings in other parts of the world).
>
> Example foto:
> https://www.rometoolkit.com/Images/xcity_sightseeing_bus_rome_1.jpg.pagespeed.ic.qtzVNApps0.jpg
>
> There are several companies which provide this kind of service, and I
> guess they are not compatible (you cannot use the same ticket for different
> companies), and with limited routes and pricing at something like 16-25EUR
> per person and 24h (they will only operate for example from 8:30-19:30
> though), these are not an alternative to public transport (1,50 EUR for 2
> hours).
>
> I will not map them (unless they pay for it ;-) ), but we should take care
> that they are NOT mapped as highway=bus_stop, or generally with public
> transport tags, that's why I mention them.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
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