[OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

[Jo]

Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> Lars Aronsson wrote:
>   
>> J.D. Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> It doesn't matter if the busstop is on the right or left side of 
>>> the road... Neither OSM wise, nor in the real world. In the real 
>>> world you use your eyes and see the busstop.
>>>       
>
>   
>> Of course it matters which side the bus stop is on.  You don't 
>> want to enter a bus that goes the wrong way, so you have to go to 
>> the right stop.  This is as fundamental as which bus lines the 
>> stop is for.
>>     
>
> I agree with LA here. Sometimes a bus stop would be on both sides of the
> road. Sometimes it would only be on one side while the one for the other
> direction is around the corner. Not having this kind of data is (in my
> personal data model view) not acceptable :-).
> Al left/right is a bit ambigious, so far I tend to draw little service
> roads and have a bus stop there.
>
> As for data, I tend to favor bus_line=123;direction=southampton or
> something similar. (or direction=north would also be a good way).
>   
Over here, most bus stops serve for more than one line, so north/west 
etc makes more sense to me than Brussels North Station/Airport personnel 
parking lot. Which are totally different locations where the different 
lines happen to go to.

Polyglot