Ed - the proper way to do bus routes is using relations. The operator tag should be on the relation, and should only have one value. This is how we deal with geolocations being part of multiple geographical structures.
If you want to add route_ref tags to the bus stops, then just make a single list, as per the wiki. That tag does no harm, but most downstream tools use the relations. The reason there wasn't much discussion on the transit list is because this approach is established; there isn't much to discuss. The only debate is between Potlatch users (who tend to put both directions in one relation, because Potlatch's editing of relations is a work-in-progress) and JOSM users (who tend to create separate relations for each direction, and neatly order the members). Basically the downstream tools have to cope with bidirectional unordered relations for the moment. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation for getting started on relations Richard On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Ed Hillsman <ehills...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > operator=HART;USF _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging