[OSM-talk] Mapnik: amenity=bus_station

[Steve Hill]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Niclas Andersson wrote:

> I've always used a node in the way to represent a bus stop. This works
> fine when there's a stop on each side of the road. Otherwise I've made
> use of the bus_direction=(N|S|E|W) tag (from
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Buses ) on the node to indicate
> in which direction the stop is for, which I believe should work fairly
> well.

Ah, I hadn't come across the bus_direction tag - that looks like a good 
solution.  Thanks.

  - Steve
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