[OSM-talk] wikiproject rail?

[David Groom]

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From: "Jon Stockill" <lists at stockill.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] wikiproject rail?


> 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.

Is it?

I would have thought a way was something more physical.

If you define a bus route as a way then where do you stop?

Then you need to think about how each different bus compnay gets stored, 
would each bus company on the same route lead to a different way.

How do you keep all this up to date.

Coach routes would then have to be added in as ways.  On railways each 
service would be a way, rather than the physical track.

I'd also argue to keep this out of OSM.

David


>
> 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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