[Tagging] How are busways mapped, which are not guideways?

Joseph Eisenberg joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 18:22:07 UTC 2020


Here's an example of an exclusive busway, which is only used by the Orange
Line / G Line bus service in suburban Los Angeles:

https://media.metro.net/riding/images/LinePage_orange_line_header.jpg

The busway is a 2-lane paved surface which is exclusively for public
transit buses. There is a parallel cycleway and footway, but no sidewalks.
Private buses and other vehicles are not permitted on the busway. It used
to be an abandoned railway line which was converted to a busway.

Currently it is mapped as highway=service + service=busway + access=no +
bus=designated - https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/443134693

While the current tagging is ok, it seems inconsistent that
highway=bus_guideway gets its own tag, while other busways which are
similar in function are tagged as highway=service.

- Joseph Eisenberg

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 1:38 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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> Oct 18, 2020, 10:20 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:
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> sent from a phone
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> On 18. Oct 2020, at 10:14, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
> tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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> One more note: in some cases only specific buses are allowed (for example,
> only public transport
> buses operated by a municipal company, with private buses not allowed).
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> In such case bus=private would be a correct tagging, right?
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> no, the tag “bus” is for a bus acting as public transport vehicle, not for
> the vehicle class of busses.
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> There are cases where buses acting as public transport vehicle (travel
> between cities) are
> still not allowed and only city-operated public transport is allowed.
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> (or is it case of regional difference of not treating privately owned
> buses running scheduled
> open access journeys as a public transport?)
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