On 2 Jul 2009, at 13:52, Peter J Stoner wrote: > In message <[email protected] > m> > Brian Prangle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Have a go at mapping one bus route to start with - it's great fun! >> We were >> helped enormously by having the trial NaPTAN import so we got a >> good grid of >> bus stops mapped where we agreed as a local group to make sure all >> the route >> nos where displayed on bus stops were tagged. It's a good idea to >> travel a >> bus route and take a GPS track ( great for wet miserable days when >> you don't >> want to cycle). If there's a plethora of operators just pick the >> biggest and >> map their routes. > >> > > I tried to do a bit of Route 50 yesterday which I know very well from > staying at the Paragon Hotel. As you will see I got into a bit of a > tangle with the relation description. Maybe somewhere there is > guidance on this. > > It is quite a lot of work and I do wonder if there are easier ways to > provide OSM with where the routes go.
I have just tagged streets in Ipswich with route=bus if buses go down them - it doesn't show bus routes but does show the network diagram, however unfortunately that tagging is no longer recognised by opvenkart. I know that Peter Stoner was doing the same in his patch. Is there any good reason to deprecate route=bus in that way and if so then how does one smiply tag a road as being on the bus network or not? Regards, Peter > > The immediate value to the public transport industry will be OSM local > verification of the bus stop positions and the naming of stops, > streets and localities. > > Best wishes. > > > > > -- > Peter J Stoner > UK Regional Coordinator > Traveline www.travelinedata.org.uk > follow us @traveline on Twitter > a trading name of > Intelligent Travel Solutions Ltd company number 3826797 > Drury House, 34-43 Russell Street, LONDON WC2B 5HA > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
