[OSM-talk-be] Bus route operator OTW vs. TEC

[Jo]

I would keep them as operator TEC. Does this mean that the regional TEC
Brabant-Wallon, TEC Namur-Luxembourg, etc. are definitely a thing of the
past? I had mentioned those subdivisions on the network tag. Do they have a
unified way for the identifiers on the stops now?

Jo

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 8:51 PM OSMDoudou <
19b350d2-b1b3-4edb-ad96-288ea1238eee at gmx.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
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> I noticed a lot of bus routes had been tagged with operator=OTW in my
> area. [1]
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> The name was unknown to me, so I searched a bit, and it seems the
> newly-created company merging the different local “TEC” companies in
> Wallonia and operating under the name “TEC”, which the passengers will know:
>
> * From their FAQ: "1 January 2019: TEC became a single legal and
> accounting entity. This legal and accounting entity is called the OTW –
> which stands for Opérateur de Transport de Wallonie. The brand name remains
> ‘TEC’." [2]
>
> * From their branding material: "Nous sommes le TEC.  C’est ainsi qu’on se
> présente à nos clients et c’est ce nom qui nous unit en interne.
> L’appellation Opérateur de Transport de Wallonie (OTW) est une appellation
> juridico-administrative qui sera utilisée sur les documents officiels." [3]
>
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> So, even if it’s technically correct to name the operator “OTW”, their
> commercial approach is such that this name will remain unknown to the
> passengers. So, it seems “TEC” remains the name to use.
>
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> I was then wondering whether operator=OTW + brand=TEC would be the way
> forward maybe, but the combination operator + brand yields no result for
> the entire country (except a few Dutch train routes coming to Belgium [4]),
> so it doesn’t seem the right approach.
>
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> So, a question is which name to use for the operator tag ?
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> And another is what to do with the routes tagged with operator=TEC and
> those with operator=OTW, which in fact refer to the same operator but with
> different names ? Should they be renamed (be it mechanically or manually)
> to have the same operator name ?
>
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>
> Thanks for your thoughts.
>
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> [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11782221
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> [2] https://www.letec.be/#/View/History_of_the_TEC/986
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> [3]
> https://chartegraphique.letec.be/build/documents/tec-charte_graphique.pdf
>
> [4] https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5305962
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