[talk-au] Tagging Sydney bus stops

Michael Collinson mike at ayeltd.biz
Wed Feb 2 04:06:55 UTC 2022


local_ref has been used it at least the UK and Sweden to tag the stand 
number. It doesn't (yet) render on the OSM map main layer but does on 
the transport layers.    /Mike


https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:local_ref

Swedish example:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/59.39035/18.04367

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/59.39035/18.04299&layers=T

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/59.39035/18.04299&layers=O



On 2/2/22 2:24 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1128912626 is an okay example, with 
> ref being the Stop ID, and name being the stop name with the stand 
> number appended to the end.
>
> So in your case,
>
> ref=201111
> name=Kings Cross Station Darlinghurst Rd, Stand A
>
> I don't think this is perfect but probably the best compromise 
> currently. We could consider something like ref:stand=A.
>
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 11:49, Mat Attlee <mattattlee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     What is the convention for tagging Sydney bus stops? I stumbled
>     upon one but not sure how to tag the stop number and the stand
>     letter so put those details in the note field
>
>     https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9465614221
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