Re: [Talk-transit] Talk-transit Digest, Vol 104, Issue 1

2020-10-16 Thread Phake Nick
>From Hong Kong's situation, I don't think it is wise to simply use capacity to differentiate between minibus and regular bus. Ithe city, minibus and regular buses are generally two different types of service, operated by different companies in different mode and according to different rules. Some

Re: [Talk-transit] Talk-transit Digest, Vol 104, Issue 1

2020-10-16 Thread Philip Barnes
On Thu, 2020-10-15 at 23:56 +0100, Alex Dhawan wrote: > > Would defiantly have to be a ballpark figure for any some of capacity > metric. Could maybe also do capacity:peak/offpeak or > capacity:morning/afternoon/evening/night? Yes random changing always > happens – but there are certainly some wh

Re: [Talk-transit] Talk-transit Digest, Vol 104, Issue 1

2020-10-15 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 18:58, Alex Dhawan wrote: > Would defiantly have to be a ballpark figure for any some of capacity metric. > Could maybe also do capacity:peak/offpeak or > capacity:morning/afternoon/evening/night? Not quite as elegant, but in OSM tagging scheme this could be `capacity:con

Re: [Talk-transit] Talk-transit Digest, Vol 104, Issue 1

2020-10-15 Thread Alex Dhawan
: a...@dhawan.me.uk Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] Talk-transit Digest, Vol 104, Issue 1 Agree with Jo about ballpark figure - similar operator activities occur in UK. On 14/10/2020 13:48, Jo wrote: Number of seats may work. But it would have to be a ballpark figure. Over here in Belgium, the same

Re: [Talk-transit] Talk-transit Digest, Vol 104, Issue 1

2020-10-14 Thread Tony Shield
Agree with Jo about ballpark figure - similar operator activities occur in UK. On 14/10/2020 13:48, Jo wrote: Number of seats may work. But it would have to be a ballpark figure. Over here in Belgium, the same line uses bendy and normal buses depending on the hour of the day, or on what they h

Re: [Talk-transit] Talk-transit Digest, Vol 104, Issue 1

2020-10-14 Thread Jo
Number of seats may work. But it would have to be a ballpark figure. Over here in Belgium, the same line uses bendy and normal buses depending on the hour of the day, or on what they have available at that specific time. On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 14:09 Tony Shield wrote: > Hi Alex > > Michael Tsang

Re: [Talk-transit] Talk-transit Digest, Vol 104, Issue 1

2020-10-14 Thread Tony Shield
Hi Alex Michael Tsang asked a very similar question  about minibus routes a few days ago. My view is that a minibus as just that - a small bus differentiated by the number of seats. From that I take the view that perhaps we should be noting the number of seats/places available on a bus servi

Re: [Talk-transit] Talk-transit Digest, Vol 104, Issue 1

2020-10-13 Thread Alex Dhawan
Hi all, Never actually sent a message to this list, hopefully this works. We’ve got a number of minibus routes around the Yorkshire Dales here in Northern England. Currently the ones that appear in OSM are just tagged as route=bus – with nothing distinguishing them from full size standard buses