[OSM-talk] Bus Routes

[Jo]

> Where is this master-master documented? I think some may shoot it
>> down, calling it a category. I use the operator and network tags to
>> group 'concessions', although here in Belgium they correspond to the
>> provinces.
>>
>
> It is not documented.
> In the Netherlands we have at present 35 concessions for buses [1]. These
> concessions will change operators regularly (they range in duration from 10
> to 20 years, so on average every year 2 concessions will end) and a new
> operator has new ideas, new lines, etc. Also sometimes concessions get
> split or combined.
> Making a relation for each concession greatly improves maintainability.
> You only have to load one relation in JOSM to get all lines and work from
> there.
> I would be really cross if someone decides to delete those relations :P
>

No worries I wasn't proposing to delete them.

>
> I believe officially you should only add nodes with
>>> "public_transport=stop_position", but in absence of those I also add
>>> "highway=bus_stop" (or even tag those with
>>> "public_transport=stop_position" which is not entirely correct).
>>>
>>
>> Don't  you mean public_transport=platform in that first sentence? I
>> think the official 'party line' is to add both platforms and
>> stop_positions.
>>
>
> That's not how I do it. But again: I'm not saying I'm doing it 100%
> correctly.
>

Me neither. I only add the platform nodes (nodes beside the way) to the
route relations. Maintenance on these route relations is hard enough,
without complicating matters unnecessarily.

Polyglot
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