[talk-au] Naming Bus Stops for interchanges in Sydney

[David Wales]

Why not:

name=Stand F, Strathfield Station
addr:street=Albert Road

On 22/1/19 11:26 am, Michael Collinson wrote:
> In Sweden, I have seen the "F" going into the ref tag. Just a thought, I
> don't recall how it affects rendering in common schemes. Con: Clash with
> a more rigorous ref num giving by the transport authority, "40459" or
> such. Another (complementary) practice is to put just "F" as the name -
> which has the secondary benefit of being more likely to render out in a
> crowded space. The other detail perhaps being better suited to the
> corresponding bus_station node/area/relation.
> 
> Else, +1 from me, the proposal seems useful to me as a smart refinement
> of local practice.
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 2019-01-22 10:26, Warin wrote:
>> Are there any dissenters? 
>> I'll give it a week.
>> Any feed back from other places In Australia? 
>> On 21/01/19 20:00, cleary wrote:
>>> As a regular user of public transport, I agree.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, at 4:39 PM, Warin wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At present the names of bus stops goes something like
>>>>
>>>> name=Strathfield Station, Albert Rd (Stand F).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The web transport trip planers direct you to Stand F, yet this is not 
>>>> very visiblein OSM renderings as that information is last.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Would it not be best to have the name put the more detailed information 
>>>> first and the generalproximity information last, much like an address?
>>>>
>>>> Such as
>>>>
>>>> name=Stand F, Albert Rd, Strathfield Station
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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