[Talk-is] Talk-is Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1

Björgvin Ragnarsson nifgraup at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 03:24:05 GMT 2012


> thank you for adding the bus stops to OSM Data. There are no relations yet,
> are there?

No relations. I see you are already adding them, great.

> Do you want to leave the bus stops the way they appear on the map now? (I
> ask because in my region, mappers create a node ON the way on which the bus
> stops and a node on the sidewalk where the stop sign/shelter is.
> Like this:
>...
> While I think that it looks better (to have only one bus
> stop node on the way instead of two) I think it is more practical for
> routing and other stuff (please correct me if I'm wrong).
>

I don't think having the stop node on the way is necessary for
routing. I guess the stop nodes just need to be part of the relation.

I would like to experiment with routing engines in the future and see
how they actually work.


Björgvin



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