[OSM-talk] wikiproject rail?

[Jon Stockill]

David Sheldon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:11:38PM +0100, Nick Burch wrote:
>>> Once geographic data is collected
>> We'd also need to think how best to store the bus routes, if we'd store 
>> the locations of bus stops etc.
> 
> I would argue that this isn't the sort of data that should be in the OSM
> database. It would be a cool project for someone to set up a mashup
> using OSM data and their own DB of the routes, maybe even using OSM data
> and tools for it, but I'm not convinced that it should be in our
> database (that isn't really designed for this sort of thing) bloating
> our dumps.

Why? It's just be another way.

Once the appropriate roads exist all you need to do add a bus route is 
create a way from the relevant segments. Not a huge overhead at all.

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