On 21 December 2010 02:23, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello list, > > While mapping bus (and other) routes all over Europe, I have frequently > encountered bus lines linking two (or more) towns, with multiple stops in > each town. For example, a bus route might include the following stops (free > adaptation of commonly encountered situation): > > Greenmond, Station > Greenmond, Doe Square > Greenmond, Church > Greenmond, Roe Street > Greenmond, New Market Mall > Whitepool, Primary School > Whitepool, Church > > What should we put in the name= tags for these stops? Where should we best > put the name of the town? > > To complicate matters, let us look at the following conditions: > > - The name on the pole itself does not include the name on the town. So the > pole at the station in Greenmond would just read "Station". >
I take the name from the pole, unless it's not descriptive enought, then from the timetable. Here I'd clearly take "Greenmond, Station" (or "Greenmond Station", but preferably not "Station, Greenmond") > - There is also a bus line operating only within Greenmond, which shares > some of the above stops. However, timetables and line sketches for this > second line omit the town name in the bus stops (i.e. Station, Doe Square, > New Market Mall). > In such cases I'd still use town name. It has happened to me that I wondered out of nowhere to find a bus stop without a locality name. I do it this way: only large towns and cities (let's say over 15 thousand inhabitants, or with a sensible number of bus stops) have those stops *without* locality name. - When rendered on a map, it is also advisable to omit the town name - thus > names are shorter, the map is less cluttered and the town name can usually > be derived from the on the map. > Cf. the earlier point - if the town is small, the map is not cluttered. Besides, rendering is not much of our concern. > - Line sketches and timetables for the above line list stop names along > with the towns they are in. There are different ways of dong this:[...] > Or (since Greenmond is a big city of a million residents or more), town > names are given only for stops outside of Greenmond. > I'd keep that. > > However, the more I think about it, the more correct it seems to me to put > the town name in a separate tag. IMHO No. This is a map, and it's the bus stop's location which tells where the bus stop is. It does contradict what I wrote earlier - why then use town names at all? Because some suburbs overlap in a strange way, and with smaller places it isn't always clear. > That way renderers get the actual (local) name of the stop separately from > the town it is in and can decide how to process these: But it's more complicated, and not compatible with existing software, I am specifically speaking about a JOSM plugin. > > > Michael > > -- Best regards, mit freundlichen Grüssen, meilleurs sentiments, Pozdrowienia, Michał Borsuk
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