[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bus stops

[Rob Nickerson]

On 17 November 2013 22:35, Matthijs Melissen <info at matthijsmelissen.nl>wrote:

> On 17 November 2013 22:03, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> > On 12 November 2013 09:49, Ed Loach <edloach at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> For name, use whatever is on the bus stop sign
> >
>

My main concern is that I'm not convinced that bus stops even have a "name"
in the UK. For example, one I just looked at in Coventry has the words
"Earlsdon Ave North <linebreak> Hearsall Common" on the sign, but on the
National Express Coventry website it is referred to as "Hearsall Common,
EARLSDON AVE NTH".

Perhaps we should ask Centro what they consider the "name" to be.

As for adding the names to the map, can one of the locals please explain
what the difference between SA and SQ1 is on the following example:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/52.48391/-1.89768&layers=T

Looking on google streetview, I do not see any reference to SQ1 (although
the text is a bit blurry). There is reference to "City Centre SA". Maybe SA
replaces SQ1? Having said this, I just checked out the travel websites and
they still use SQ1. On the other hand new maps use SA instead:

http://www.networkwestmidlands.com/web/FILES/BhamCityCentre.pdf

Is anyone able to survey these? Maybe worth asking Centro/nx buses about
this too...

Best,
Rob
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