Hello, I find it strange to use highway=service without being able to add a service=* to specify the type of service way, but that's how most BRTs [1] are currently mapped, for example, TransJakarta, Bogota's TransMilenio, and the Metrobus systems of Mexicy City and Buenos Aires.
I've seen service=busway applied to the ways of some BRTs [1], such as in Los Angeles' Orange Line and Nantes' Line 4, and its usage has been growing slowly, but it is not documented. On the other hand, service=bus is much more common, but the wiki discourages its use [2] since 2017, although I could not find any discussion supporting this change. It seems service=bus was used to compensate for "issues with a routing engine" [2], but no other applications seem to support this value, and maybe those app-related issues no longer exist. As of 2019, what do you think is the ideal/correct way of mapping these bus corridors? Should service=* be avoided on them? Should service=busway be documented? Should service=bus be replaced with service=busway? Regards, [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit [2] Currently, the warning message is not displayed on mobile browsers: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:service%3Dbus -- Fernando Trebien _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
