[Talk-transit] bus stop name

Clay Smalley claysmalley at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 01:47:11 UTC 2020


Hi there. I maintain most of the OSM bus routes in the San Francisco Bay
Area. Bus stops in the US are named after the nearest intersection most of
the time, with others being named after street addresses, nearby buildings,
or transportation facilities.

Please do not put route numbers in a bus stop's name=* tag. The Name Is The
Name Only. If you want to record the route numbers listed at a bus stop,
use route_ref=*. This tag can be helpful when creating bus route relations
from scratch.

If you click on a bus stop at http://openbusmap.org/ it will show you the
routes that stop there. Is this closer to what you're looking for?

 -Clay

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 6:16 PM 80hnhtv4agou--- via Talk-transit <
talk-transit at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

>     In the USA bus stops (flag stops) are located for the most part at
> named intersections, that is at where the street
>
> sign is.
>
>    so you DO know where you are. but on the OSM standard map the bus stop
> tag depending on the
>
> editor does not show the route number, can you have the route number on
> the tag ?
>
> ​​​​​​​the wiki on this seems to be written for a European standard.
>
>
>
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