[OSM-talk-be] replace ref on stops De Lijn with mijnlijn.be/x0xxxx

[Ben Abelshausen]

I guess that would mean adapting openlinkmap specifically for mijnlijn.be.
Is that a good idea?

Regards,

Ben

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Wim Crols <wim at crols.be> wrote:

> I would suggest the following
>
> Leave ref tag as it is "ref=x0xxxx"
> Put in url tag the following "http://mijnlijn.be/"
>
> And make a software patch for openlinkmap to show the correct link on
> existence of the following tags
>    highway = bus_stop
>    operator = De Lijn
>    ref = 303119
>    url = http://mijnlijn.be/
>
> Regards
>
> Wim Crols
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Historically we have been putting the 6 digit serial number we found on
>> the stops of De Lijn into ref. I would like to propose to move them to:
>>
>> url=mijnlijn.be/x0xxxx
>>
>> That way they would be a lot more useful on sites like openlinkmap:
>>
>> http://www.openlinkmap.org/?zoom=18&lat=50.87952&lon=4.69273&layers=B
>>
>> The link translates to a webpage with realtime information of the buses
>> that serve the stop and it's very convenient to be able to click through on
>> them with a smartphone, a tablet or even from the desktop.
>>
>> To avoid redundancy I wouldn't keep the number in ref anymore. It's quite
>> specific to De Lijn, so somebody who wants to do something with those
>> serial numbers, can just as well extract them from the url.
>>
>> Jo
>>
>>
>>
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