On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 12:05 -0400, Zachary Rallis wrote: > Hi Folks, > > > New list member (and OSMer) here. Really intriguing and exciting > project. > > > I have data for most (If not all - still confirming this) of the bus > stops for the municipal transit system in Kingston, ON and would love > to start adding it to the map this weekend, but I've noticed there > isn't much of a standard tagging for stops in a local transit system. > > > Winnipeg seems to be leading the way from my (admittedly short) > research. They have a proposed set of tags on their wiki page > at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Manitoba:Winnipeg#Bus_stops > > > I'd like to get a discussion started about setting a national standard > for stop tagging so that I only have to go through this stop data > once. While I don't mind doing the entering, there are nearly 1500 > points here, and having to go through the list twice (Once for entry, > the second for an update once there's a standard) would be a pain.
Hi Zach, There's actually quite a bit of international discussion of how to tag/represent transit information in OSM. This message from Chris Osborne on transit-developers provides a good summary of where things are currently at: http://groups.google.com/group/transit-developers/browse_thread/thread/e60cdff62c340cd9 In particular, check out the proposed public transit schema: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Oxomoa/Public_transport_schema I wouldn't worry _too_ much about entering things in the wrong format. We can always do a bulk, automated change if it turns out to not be quite what we want later. [ if you don't feel up to doing this, I'm sure either myself or someone else interested in public transport can ] -- William Lachance <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
