Re: [Talk-transit] Criteria for inclusion

2012-02-29 Thread Richard Mann
I add service=something to the relation to roughly describe what the type of service is. The ones I use a service=city, service=country, service=express, service=park_and_ride. I also add a rough weekday frequency (number of buses per hour off-peak). That way people can pick out stuff they want

[Talk-transit] Proposal for a new transport tag

2012-02-29 Thread Janko Mihelić
Hello, The problem with rendering transit lines right now is that the busy lines are rendered the same as the lines that go a few times a day. Those differences between lines should be seen right away, but we don't have that information in the database right now. I agree that the best solution

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposal for a new transport tag

2012-02-29 Thread Bryce McKinlay
Personally, I think adding transit schedule data to OSM is not a good idea. Firstly, in many areas, schedules are highly variable over time, so this sort of information tends to become obsolete soon after it is added. Secondly, GTFS is already a good, widely used, open format for transit

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposal for a new transport tag

2012-02-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Bryce McKinlay bmckin...@gmail.com wrote: Secondly, GTFS is already a good, widely used, open format for transit schedules. Introducing a new set of tags for this stuff in OSM would be like reinventing the wheel. In many cases GTFS data is provided and kept

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposal for a new transport tag

2012-02-29 Thread Janko Mihelić
Dana srijeda, 29. veljače 2012., korisnik Bryce McKinlaybmckin...@gmail.com je napisao: If its just having a service frequency hint for renderers that is required, then I'd suggest keeping it very simple. For example, transport_frequency=frequent, With my tag, it would be

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposal for a new transport tag

2012-02-29 Thread Andre Joost
Am 29.02.2012 16:07, schrieb Janko Mihelić: Hello, The problem with rendering transit lines right now is that the busy lines are rendered the same as the lines that go a few times a day. Those differences between lines should be seen right away, but we don't have that information in the