Re: [talk-au] Tagging Sydney bus stops

2022-02-13 Thread Andrew Harvey
I like the idea of local_ref for the stand letter and ref for the bus stop number. On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 15:38, Stéphane Guillou via Talk-au < talk-au@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Here from Meanjin/Brisbane, I've often struggled with naming bus stops, > and I'm keen to learn more. > > I've

Re: [talk-au] Tagging Sydney bus stops

2022-02-13 Thread Stéphane Guillou via Talk-au
Here from Meanjin/Brisbane, I've often struggled with naming bus stops, and I'm keen to learn more. I've switched between using what's on the sign (seen from afar), or on the timetable (often longer form). And using differing keys like: name, alt_name, short_name. So would love to have a

Re: [talk-au] Tagging Sydney bus stops

2022-02-02 Thread Warin
On 2/2/22 18:24, cleary wrote: I suggest leaving the bus stop ID number in the format that Andrew initially stated, ref=20 (rather than ref:stand=A) As a regular used of buses (pre-covid), I think "Stand A" etc needs to be part of the name. At some locations, the stands are a block or

Re: [talk-au] Tagging Sydney bus stops

2022-02-01 Thread cleary
I suggest leaving the bus stop ID number in the format that Andrew initially stated, ref=20 (rather than ref:stand=A) As a regular used of buses (pre-covid), I think "Stand A" etc needs to be part of the name. At some locations, the stands are a block or more apart (such as the multiple

Re: [talk-au] Tagging Sydney bus stops

2022-02-01 Thread Michael Collinson
local_ref has been used it at least the UK and Sweden to tag the stand number. It doesn't (yet) render on the OSM map main layer but does on the transport layers.    /Mike https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:local_ref Swedish example:

Re: [talk-au] Tagging Sydney bus stops

2022-02-01 Thread Andrew Harvey
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1128912626 is an okay example, with ref being the Stop ID, and name being the stop name with the stand number appended to the end. So in your case, ref=20 name=Kings Cross Station Darlinghurst Rd, Stand A I don't think this is perfect but probably the best

[talk-au] Tagging Sydney bus stops

2022-02-01 Thread Mat Attlee
What is the convention for tagging Sydney bus stops? I stumbled upon one but not sure how to tag the stop number and the stand letter so put those details in the note field https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9465614221 ___ Talk-au mailing list