Our bus stops in Flanders have unique identifiers visible to the public on the flags of the stop poles.
I started by entering those in the ref tag, then later decided to use ref:De_Lijn=y0yyyy, as some of those stops are served by other operators as well. For several years now itt's possible to obtain real-time information about the buses on a url+identifier, so I want to add that to those stops. As i don't like to duplicate information I'd prefer to drop the ref:De_Lijn though. So all of those stops would have: url=http://mijnlijn.be/303079 (<- you can test this, the url is expanded/translated to a url on www.delijn.be) For the conversion, I'd like to launch a Belgian "Project of the month", so the position of the stops can be verified once more by locals, but also shelters and bus_bays can be added and if cycle ways split off to go around those bus bays, that detail can be added as well. I know that that is what we have been doing for the past 5+ years, but now it would get some more dedicated focus. For several years I thought having the identifier n a dedicated ref:X tag and then telling everyone about how to turn it into such a url was the way to go,. That doesn't actually work though. Nobody knows how to get from the identifer to the url. Giving potential passengers a url they can simply click through on, seems to be the better way of doing this for this use case. Polyglot
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