[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bus stops

[Ed Loach]

Matthijs asked:

 

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> The question is now, which of these should we use for the name

> tag?

 

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> Please let me know what you think.

 

For name, use whatever is on the bus stop sign. So in this example:

http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/65797/article_346b19a79c148b9f
_1342893529_9j-4aaqsk.jpeg

name=Corporation St

(or perhaps Street rather than St – not sure if we expand road names
when they aren’t being used as road names)

 

The NaPTAN CommonName is perhaps a contender for loc_name

 

Looking at the Birmingham data you might want to consider stop area
relations too. 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:public_transport%3Dstop_area

 

Compare say:

http://osm.org/go/euzMKgzcV-?m

in Birmingham with 

http://osm.org/go/eutJJRRfr--?m

in Oxford (you’ll need to switch to Transport layer as I can’t work
out how to specify transport layer in a shortlink without it getting
the zoom level wrong).

 

Ed

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