That's why having an established commonname (as in NaPTAN) is important - and we want to grow the practice so that people recognise a stop by its commonname. Most of the other names that you suggest are not names, they are narrative descriptions - which is quite different. The commonname is the Given Name - I name this stop "....". Generally it will take its parentage from a side street or a nearby landmark.
Roger -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Loach Sent: 08 September 2009 16:01 To: 'Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics' Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] One last question (for now) > I reckon name should be something like what-people-would-call- > them [or > what bus-drivers-would-understand], not necessarily as flagged. The problem with this would, in the case of the "B&Q" stops be that I could probably say any of the following: I'd like to get off at (or near) * the ambulance station * the snooker club * the Range * Dovercourt Ford * the Rugby Club * the Bowls Club * the Scout hut * the Valleybridge Road junction * (just before/after) the railway bridge which are all around the two stops I mentioned. The one that makes most sense to me, and is used on most of the other stops I've checked, is the one where the stop is named after the nearby side road, as the road is more likely to persist than the other places (well, apart from the railway bridge which survived the cull in the 60s so should persist a while yet). Ed _______________________________________________ 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
