[Talk-transit] Long bus routes

Jarek Piórkowski jarek at piorkowski.ca
Tue Aug 6 13:06:45 UTC 2019


On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 06:23, Dave F via Talk-transit
<talk-transit at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> On 06/08/2019 07:08, Janko Mihelić wrote:
> > An app would route from one station to the other, and show status as if you
> > were driving. There could be a tag that would say if the route goes through
> > motorways, tolled roads, ferries and so on. That would help the app
> > determine what would be the route.
>
> No, it wouldn't. That would just be guessing

The currently mapped Flixbus routes are just guessing as well - buses
can deviate as long as they make the scheduled stops.

They don't usually deviate, because the mapped route is by far the
fastest, and that's the point.

--Jarek



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