Hi, The current public transport schema bundles local bus transit routes together with intercity buses (coaches), both routes are tagged with route=bus.
Since buses and coaches rarely are part of the same network, this makes things rather confusing for users of transit maps like Öpnvkarte. If I want to go to another part of town, I'll need the routes of the local (bus) transit network and intercity services are distraction, but if I'm going to another city, the opposite is true. Looking at main bus stations in European cities, one sees that not many intercity routes are mapped. Given the current potential for confusion with local transit, this is probably a good thing, but it also means that OSM is missing a significant part of the public transport network. The obvious fix would be to create a new public transport type in addition to bus, train, tram, etc. Since British English seems to be the standard in OSM, the new type should be called 'coach'. In practice, this type would be used in public_transport=stop_position nodes with a coach=yes tag and in routes with route=coach. Coach routes should have tags similar to bus routes (name, network, etc.). Transit maps should render coach routes with a unique color to distinguish them from other networks. Are there any downsides to this idea? How would one go about proposing coach routes as a standard, documented feature? Should a new proposal be made, or can the active public transport proposal at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport be amended? Best, Teemu _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
