[OSM-talk] route=road - What's that all about then?

Jo winfixit at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 18:26:30 UTC 2014


Do I really hear you saying I should only map bus routes as relations where
the ways are used by more than one route? and as route_ref tags on the
stretches where that particular road is used only by a single bus line?

How can one easily check whether the routes is continuous in that case?

Jo


2014-08-22 15:24 GMT+02:00 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If road routes are categories, then bus routes are also categories.
>
> No. At least, the bus route relation brings some info that is not
> available elsewhere: the ordered list of bus stops. But if you ask me
> again, I would say that most of the ways added in this bus relation
> are unnecessary and strongly disturb other mappers (like
> over-segmenting highway ways). As suggested in the past, only the bus
> stops and some key junctions would be enough. But that's another
> discussion.
> The result of moving all common tags in parent relations is that we
> find ways belonging to 10, 15 or more relations... and sometimes for
> identical routes since it is out of control.
>
> Pieren
>
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