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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 07:45:57PM +0200, Ben Laenen wrote:
> On Thursday 26 June 2008, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> You don't need to know the entire route to enter it in OSM, if you know 
> a few roads where it passes, that's already enough.
> 
> You can also add the nodes of the bus stops to the relation (and at some 
> point that should be done anyway).
> 
> > Are school buses considered to be normal bus lines?
> 
> I'd stay with the buses from De Lijn, MIVB/STIB and TEC for now. Nothing 
> can stop you adding the routes you want of course, but it's outside the 
> scope of the routes I'm targetting. It also depends on how these school 
> buses work exactly, but I would not tag them as normal bus lines.

I guess there are 2 cases here:
- Those from de lijn that are like normal routes, just with different
  places they stop, and different hours
- Special busses organized by the school


Kurt