Problem is determining commonnames without reference to passengers - so you end up with Bridge Lane opp Health Centre (n bound) when 'B&Q' would be better.
Don't think there is much common at all about naming streets after side streets - few people (mappers and posties excluded unfortunately) will know the name of many/any streets that they don't reside. Ditto names of houses in rural areas. Or numbers - worse. Naming stops is ideally suited for OSM-type crowd sourcing... Roger Slevin wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
