UK native here... Looking at the vehicles, a bus would be more spartan, set up for fare collection, doors for speedy un/loading etc whereas a coach would almost always have only a single door (although some have more), be more luxurious, be equipped with seat belts etc. In bus-lover-land there are even so-called "Dual Purpose" vehicles which are in between being a bus and a coach.
Looking at the usage of the vehicles, a bus would typically be used on scheduled services with a predefined timetable and (mostly) predefined stops, whereas a coach would often be used on "private hire" arrangements for one-off journeys. Having said that, there are many scheduled long-distance (city to city) services using coaches, and buses can also be used for private hire. There is also a grey area of express services with multiple stops along a predetermined route (I am thinking of the old Green Line network for example). >From the perspective of traffic law, a "Bus Lane" may be restricted to >scheduled services by a licensed operator. Even empty buses returning to the >depot may not be allowed (as it is not on "active service"). Other bus lanes >might also allow private hire vehicles, it depends on the specific legislation. My main point being that the way the vehicle is constructed may not be enough to determine whether it can use a bus lane or use a coach parking area - the circumstances of its use may also be significant. Colin > On 09/06/2023 16:24 CEST Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > > > Anne-Karoline Distel <annekadis...@web.de> writes: > > > [women's and parent's parking] > > I can believe it exists, and it being common in .eu explains why it's in > the josm presets. > > You're right about caravans/ RVs, that should be its own tag as well and > > be rendered. For coaches, I'm in favour of amenity=coach_parking (or > > "bus_parking", if people don't like the term "coach". This might be > > easier for non-native British English speakers), since that's how it's > > done with cars and bicycles. > > I would use the normal UK term, as OSM tradition is to use UK English. > It seems coach is for distance and 'bus' is used for within a city as > part of a rapid transit system. But we need an en_GB native speaker to > opine. > > In the US people do use "motorcoach" to refer to a "tour bus" when > trying to make it sound fancy, so I don't think coach_parking will > confuse most en_US speakers. But e.g. Greyhound calls itself bus. > > > On a cynical sidenote, we're gonna need "SUV_parking" soon, because they > > take up so much space. > > I guess when you see it in the wild we can talk about how to map it. > > In many parking garages in the US, there are spaces labeled "compact car > only" which is a way of saying "this parking space isn't long enough". > But generally there are some of those and many regular and nobody has to > think about it, and I know of no place where you can't park in the > facility at all if you don't have a compact car. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
