Pieter, good to hear De Lijn plans such deep links. I think
it will be good to have them on our route_master relations.
The route relations are for the longest variations in
itinerary, not sure if they fit there.
For the stops, I tend to like the
mijnlijn.be/
form, as that is the information printed on each of the paper
schedules on the stops. So if De Lijn is not planning to
abolish those in the medium term, I'd prefer to use them. I'll
hold off with preparing the data and launching the Project of
the Month though.
Pieter, is De Lijn planning to introduce uic identifiers we
could put in uic_ref?
We don't have anything that corresponds to the zones in
OSM. I'm curious to find out what will be behind those urls. I
painstakinglly added the zone information on the stops, but
now that a ticket has a time limitation instead of a zone
dependent one, they became less relevant.
Marc, we can leave the ref:De_Lijn tags. I'm not strongly
against keeping them, but I doubt anyone uses them (except me
in my integraton scripts). If anyone wants to use them, it's
trivial to extract the identifiers from the url tag values.
There is another tag I'd like to introduce. While reviewing
the import of bus stops around Finland, they added a direction
tag.
My first reflex was to remove it after reviewing the stop,
but now I start to see value in knowing in which direction the
bus will leave. I plan to add functionality to PT_Assistant to
calculate it automatically based on the segment of the way the
stop is adjacent to. And in a second stage a validator rule
that checks whether the stop is (still) on the correct side of
the road (right or left, depending on the side of the road
vehicles drive on)
Polyglot
