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

[Joseph Eisenberg]

I agree that highway=bus_guideway deserved it's own tag, since it is
halfway to a rubber-tyred light metro, and quite similar to the "people
mover" systems often found at airports, which often use concrete guidways
and rubber-tired vehicles.

But since other busways serve the same public transit function and are
exclusively for public transportation use, they are functionally similar
from the perspective of a rider or a mapper.

And there are already some examples of highway=bus_guideway getting misused
for other busways, so it would be helpful to settle on the best way to tag
these:
https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/4226#issue-724131173

-- Joseph Eisenberg

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 4:02 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

>
> 18 paź 2020, 20:22 od joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com:
>
> 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.
>
> Given that rail-like bus guideway is
> drastically different in its structure from
> roads I see no problem with it getting a
> separate highway value.
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