I use frequency= to record the off-peak Mon-Fri service frequency per hour (so for one every 20 mins, frequency=3). Which I must add as a suggestion to the wiki.
Ideally editor support would be available for handling 50+ relations on a way (a not uncommon situation on a central urban street). Richard On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Roland Olbricht <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I would like to add to the map the bus routes of Wuppertal. After starting > with a sample (4 out of about 50 routes), it turned out to be a tedious > task > due to poor tool support. Thus, I'm thinking about writing a JOSM plugin to > simplify editing. > > Are there already efforts to write better editor support? On what data > representation should this based? > > There doesn't seem to be consenus about what representation to use. > There are some, partly contradictive, propositions > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NaPTAN > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User%3AOxomoa/Public_transport_schema > (and probably others) > and all of them only partly fit to the following concerns I have: > > - I'd like to differentiate between networks for different times of the > day. > For example, for the Paris bus network there are even distinct maps: > http://www.ratp.info/orienter/bus.php > The network has services that run only during daytime, services running > only > in the evening, services running in the evening a different mission than > during daytime and services running always the same mission. > > - Some of the services run through loops. E.g. > > A--------B----F---C--------D > | | > +----E---+ > > they run ABECD in one direction and DCFBECFBA in the other direction. The > standard route model with unordered data does not allow to distinguish this > from ABECFBECD forth and DCFBA back. > > - I'd like to give some indication about the frequency: there are services > like bus 587 running once per day as opposed to services like 608 running > every 10 minutes. > > - I'd like to give some indication about connections between different > services. Some services always wait for each other to allow to change > quickly. Some services intentionally have coordinated timetables, i.e. > the busses of line 627 and 637 partly run in parallel. One is departing at > a > stop at 00 und 20, the other at 40, so they offer together a ride every 20 > minutes. > > Cheers, > Roland > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit >
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