[Talk-ca] Help needed to double-check a recent changeset in Montreal

[john whelan]

In Ottawa they now announce bus stops and as part of that process remapped
all the bus stops using accurate GPS devices and dropped the result in the
GTFS file.

GTFS has its own standard tags (names) for bus stops and bus stop
identifiers, including reference numbers.  To make life easier for other
software retaining the GTFS tag standard names might make sense.

Cheerio John

On 9 July 2012 20:39, Nicolas Marchildon <nicolas at marchildon.net> wrote:

> I have been mapping some bus stops, and I used "ref" for the stop number,
> not the route number. I usually added the route numbers of that stop in the
> "notes" tag, but by looking at http://openptmap.org/ I see there's an
> example in Montreal, on rue du Parc, and it uses a relation for the bus
> route:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Relation:route
>
> It seems you can add individual points as well as ways to the route, but I
> don't know how it would render the points. I would try creating the route
> with the route number as an attribute, then add the bus stops with
> ref=<stop number> to the relation.
>
> The openptmap is updated every day, so I'd say try it and let us know how
> it goes :)
>
>
> 2012/7/6 Fabian Rodriguez <MagicFab at member.fsf.org>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's been a while since I've edited maps directly, I am still using
>> Potlatch 1 as I am more familiar with it.
>>
>> Could someone in Montreal check my edits and advise accordingly?
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/12130831
>>
>> I am particularly interested in the bus stop. The documentation at the
>> OpenStreetMap wiki[1] indicates that the bus rout # should be in ref=XX,
>> but our bus stops also have a unique identifier to get schedules, etc.
>> and I see those identifiers in ref=XXXXX in other tags nearby. Which
>> should I use? There are also new tags that are recommended (ie.
>> bus=yes). Should I put both older and newer recommended tags?
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dbus_stop
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Fabian Rodriguez
>> Montreal, Quebec, Canada
>> http://openstreetmap.magicfab.ca
>>
>>
>>
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