woud the roundtrip tag help you with that? 2018-05-25 12:51 GMT+02:00 Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com>:
> > > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Peter Elderson <pelder...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> In that case it is a service-thing rather than a route-thing. Is it >> generally used like that? >> The wiki just mentions the co-location of start/endpoint of the route. >> >> I'm going by what I've encountered in various towns and cities. > > I've seen many routes where the bus goes from A->B, passengers disembark > at B, > new passengers board at B and the bus then goes from B->A. It's not a > round trip. > Even if you buy a return ticket or have an unlimited use ticket, you still > have to get > off at B. Often there is a 5 or 10 minute (or longer) layover at B while > the driver > has a piss or a cup of coffee or a smoke (or all three at once, perhaps). > > I've also seen routes where it truly is a round trip (and most of those > were also > circulars). With an unlimited ticket you could stay on the bus all day. > I met one > guy who did because in winter it cost him too much to heat his house, so > there > he was on the bus with a packed lunch, several cans of beer (illegal) and > a happy > grin. > > There is also a route I've yet to map, and am struggling to figure out how > to > do it. One of the things I can handle is still pertinent: it goes from > the bus station > (A) like this: A->B->C->D->A->B->P->A->Z->A->B [out of service] -> A. Z > is > actually a roundabout, with no official stops between it and A, merely so > the bus > can enter A in one direction and come back in the other. But it's a > hail-and-ride > service, so theoretically it's possible to get off or on at Z. Over the > entire route > it's not a round trip even though it visits some parts of the route more > than once. > Actually, I simplified a lot. There are aspects of that route I can't > figure out how > to handle. > > -- > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Vr gr Peter Elderson
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