[OSM-talk] Bus stops (ready for London Mapping Party)

[John McKerrell]

On 25 Jan 2007, at 13:02, Dave wrote:

> On 1/25/07, Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:
> <snip>

> There's one or two bus stops added to streets in central london  
> already... that I've noticed. I've only noticed them because  
> they're not actually part of ways at all, but a separate node to  
> one side at the bus stop location. This has benefits in terms of  
> accurate placement, but ofcourse breaks the topology somewhat.
>
> The other piece of information for bus stops is the bus stop name.  
> Most bus stops in the UK have an ID within a local area, usually  
> just single letters: A, B, C etc although sometimes C1,C1 etc too.  
> A ref tag of some description could deal with this. They're very  
> useful to make sure you're catching a bus in the right direction...
>
>
I have to admit that some of those were probably mine. I just saw  
"node - highway - bus_stop" and thought "well I'll add a node on the  
side of the road as that's where the bus stop is", didn't think about  
the topology :-/

FWIW I did take photos of the stops and where possible added as much  
information as I could, (though now I look it's not all that much),  
an example would be:

highway=bus_stop
name=City Thameslink Station
note=Services - 8,25,242,521,N8

As you can see with no specific tag for the routes I just popped them  
in the note so they could be added later.

John

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