[OSM-talk-be] Bus, tram and metro lines

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 04:48:42PM +0200, Ben Laenen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've spent some time creating this page: 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Belgium/Public_Transport
> 
> I think that so far only Polyglot and me have done a bit of work adding 
> bus and tram lines in Belgium. But of course, we can't check all bus 
> routes in Belgium, so here's a little request: if you know some bus 
> routes, or see bus stops along your roads, consider adding some bus 
> lines to OSM as well :-)

I do take pictures of all the bus stops, and add them to osm.  However,
I didn't make any bus routes.  So I basicly now several places where the
bus stops, but not enough to make a full route of it.  Can we somehow
tag which routes pass in which bus station?

> The current tagging rules for the route relations are at 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Belgium/Conventions/Bus_and_tram_lines
> Note that that page could perhaps use some input as well, since we still 
> need a proper tagging scheme for "belbussen", and night buses. Also 
> adding bus stops to the relations isn't covered yet.

Are school buses considered to be normal bus lines?


Kurt