[Talk-GB] Finding out if a TFL bus stop is still active

[David Woolley]

On 30/09/2021 10:32, Mat Attlee wrote:
> Now how do I tag this as a bus stand? I can't see anything in the wiki 
> under https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dbus_stop 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dbus_stop> or anywhere 
> else

I think the basic problem is that public transport has been treated from 
a consumer point of view only, and doesn't include infrastructure.  E.g. 
although bus depots are included, in OSM, they are a special case of 
depot, not part of the public transport model.

Bus stands are a sort of depot without a roof!

I haven't thought the following through in detail, but logically stands 
are parking areas, restricted to public service vehicles only.  I wonder 
if one could model them in that way.

Unfortunately, I suspect that many bus stands have been modelled as bus 
stops, and the quick research I did, yesterday, suggests that things 
called stands have even been included in routes, ignoring the rule 
against doing that (routes were described as starting at a stand).