[OSM-talk] Bus Stops

Ben Laenen benlaenen at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 12:59:31 BST 2008


On Thursday 24 April 2008, Peter Miller wrote:
> It would make sense to rationalise bus stops, tram stops, metro
> platforms, ferry quays into the same structures as the standards do.

Especially because a stop can be both a bus stop and a tram stop at the 
same time.

> Agreed, I think we should avoid overloading bus stops with service
> information, although ;'towards Birmingham' might be an appropriate
> way of indicating the direction that all buses much take from that
> spot, as opposed to ';way from Birmingham' on the other side of the
> road. But that is to do with the road system not today's bus service
> patterns.

This is how it works over here: (best pic I could find) 
http://www.wommelgem.be/varia/randinfo/busstop.jpg
For each line there's the destination written below the number (and 
optionally the route). It's not as bad on this specific sign (you get 
the choice to go south or east there), but the destinations can be 
easily in the opposite directions as well, and it could well be 
possible that a line goes to city X on one side of the road and that 
another line with a stop on the other side of the road also goes to 
city X (albeit with a different route of course).

That's why I think the destination information should come from the bus 
route relations themselves. We need to associate bus stops with the bus 
lines anyway since not all buses stop at each bus stop it drives by.


> We could talk about modelling bus services, but lets not for now.
> Lets sort out fixed infrastructure and then revisit timetable.

Modelling bus lines isn't difficult, just enter some route relations and 
many people have done it before (time tables are really out of the 
question right now, I guess no-one wants to enter time table data for 
each bus stop separately yet, as it would take an hour for one stop I 
think). What hasn't been done yet is associating bus stops with those 
routes.

Greetings
Ben




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