[OSM-talk] wikiproject rail?

[Lars Aronsson]

David Groom wrote about bus routes:

> How do you keep all this up to date.

While I'm prepared to agree that bus routes could (and probably 
should) be kept separate, the smaller issue of keeping the data 
up to date is no worse than keeping the rest of OSM up to date.
We're already doing roundabouts where there were traffic lights 
last year.  And speaking about my own town, the bus route between 
the train station and the university campus is likely the only one 
of interest within the coming two years.  I predict there will be 
enough students with GPS receivers who can keep this up to date.

To make all OSM data more manageble, we might benefit from 
separating physical roadworks (road width, surface coating, number 
of lanes) from traffic rules (allowed vehicles, speed limits, 
thoroughfare, one-way streets) and uses (bus routes, weekly 
icecream delivery, steamboat time tables, library opening hours, 
traffic congestion statistics, etc.).


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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