[OSM-talk] Bus routes questions

[Jochen Topf]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:50:30PM +0200, Ondrej Novy wrote:
> i think it's time to cleanup bus routes concept
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Public_Transportation
> 
> * forward/backward_stop can't work if you map bus_stop as standalone waypoint
> * stop_<number> is useless because we have ordered relations
> * if bus goes from place A throw B to place C, should i create relation only
>   in one direction - A, B, C - or - A, B, C, B, A - or should i create two
>   (theoretical more) relations for every trace (A, B, C + C, B, A)?
> * what if bus have two routes - one for morning, one for evening - should it
>   be two relations, or just one with 'every ways'? Example: A, B, C, D -
>   morning, A, C, D - evening.

There is a proposal on the table that solves all these things and much more:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Oxomoa/Public_transport_schema

This was the result of a public transport workshop in Germany. People in
Germany have started to tag according to this proposal to see how practical it
is. Also see the public transport views on http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/

Discussions should probably go to the talk-transit list:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit

Jochen
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