Richard Z. wrote > Is the route "defined"? I would say "yes" for urban buses in the three cities nearest to me in Spain (Malaga, Seville, Granada). In all three cities the routes (not just stops) are quite prominently displayed on the relevant websites - see a random example here: http://www.granadadirect.com/images/transporte/urbanos/planos/plano-4.png
I think it would be confusing for users if OpenStreetMap tools displayed routes that differ from these official maps, so we should use a scheme that allows OSM bus routes to be kept in sync with the official ones. From what I have read so far of this proposal, doing this with "via" nodes sounds more difficult for mappers than the current method of including the ways in the route relation, as there appears to be a certain amount of trial-and-error, plus the possibility of different routers giving different results. I agree that for long-distance express buses there may not be any "official" route made available to the public, so I would certainly support ways being optional elements of the relation. But I'm not yet convinced that they should be excluded entirely. -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Tagging-f5258744.html _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
