[OSM-talk] specific Relations

[David Earl]

On 15/10/2007 15:04, Stephen Gower wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:11:11PM +0100, David Earl wrote:
>> See ... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Relations
>>
>> [...] I have put in initial descriptions for: [...]
>>
>> * Routes, to include numbered roads, cycle routes and bus routes, 
>> expandable to others.
> 
>   I've been thinking about this over the weekend, before actually
>   reading David's proposal, because both my wife (in person) and a
>   friend (on LJ) have wanted to find out about some of the newer
>   routes in Oxford and realised there isn't a decent, up-to-date, bus
>   route map of Oxford - naturally I thought OSM!
>   
>   I had thought some of what David had, and some other stuff, but
>   before I go further with his proposal, I'd like to estabish the
>   limits of relations.
>   
>   David has suggested we record, using the "role" tag, the
>   direction(s) the stop operates in.  This is important, but I can
>   think of other attributes, that may refer to every route using the
>   stop, but may refer to just one route. If "role" is being used for
>   direction, what can we use to tag the other attributes?

Actually, my proposal didn't have this in - someone else added it. 
Clearly it isn't essential to describing a bus route, but would be useful.

(We might want to think about how the existing bus_top node relates to 
this as well).

David