On 19 Feb 2009, at 16:21, Thomas Wood wrote: > Hi list, > In the process of writing the converter for the NaPTAN dataset, I've > come across a need for how to tag areas in which a bus may stop. > > The most obvious of these is the 'Hail and Ride' sections of routes, > where a bus may stop at any point on the road if requested. Searching > the wiki, it seems that adding the way to a route relation and marking > it's role as 'hail' was one approach suggested by the person dealing > with the QROTI transit import of the Brisbane area > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/QROTI).
Hail and Ride needs to be associated with a section of road. We should probably implement it as a relation that is associated with one or more ways and where the stop tags live in the relation. I suggest that we leave this till later. > > > NaPTAN also allows for a Flexible Zone type of stopping area, it only > describes this as "Flexible zone, with an area footprint.". NaPTAN > seems to explicitly differentiate it from the standard concept that > NaPTAN has of Stop Areas, where many stopping points in a locality are > grouped together for interchanges. > Does anyone have any idea what a flexible zone is? And if so, how we'd > represent it in OSM. I flexible zone is used my demand responsive services that don't follow fixed routes, I suggest we leave these for now. Note: Stop Areas are different and more useful (although the data for them in NaPTAN is pretty flakey). Two stop points opposite each other will be grouped as a stop area. All the stops around a station will be grouped as a stop area (they should be anyway). THis is useful, but could easily be added in some later import. > > > -- > Regards, > Thomas Wood > (Edgemaster) > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
