[OSM-talk-be] Changed tagging of bus stops of De Lijn/TEC and MIVB/STIB

[Sander Deryckere]

What are you doing about the stop positions? I noticed that the position
from De Lijn is often much worse than the position in OSM.

Regards,
Sander

2014-11-12 21:18 GMT+01:00 Jo <winfixit at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> After a few years of tagging bus stops around Belgium, I noticed we've
> been doing it wrong... :-)
>
> I changed this wiki page:
>
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Conventions/Bus_stops
>
> The biggest problem I ran into, was that it seemed easier to use several
> nodes for the different companies. As long as this was an exception in
> border areas and Brussels, it didn't matter too much. TEC behaves like 6
> different companies each assigning their own refs and now it became
> commonplace.
>
> After a discussion on the German forum I came to the conclusion there is a
> better way.
>
> For consistency I want to change all bus stops in Belgium to this scheme
> and not only the ones which are near to other stops from different
> companies.
>
> While at this, I want to add network tags, they seem to be important for
> some applications. Up to now we only mentioned operator.
>
> For the past 2 days I've been preparing a dataset with 70000 stops, which
> will probably be reduced to 60k to 65k stops by the time it's ready to be
> uploaded.
>
> Jo
>
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