While you could call all intercity buses express buses. Not all express buses are intercity buses. A common scheme around here is for rush hour express lines that stop at all stops in the suburbs/villages, then skip most/all stops in the city proper and end at the central (bus)station.
The original Oxomoa scheme already contained a solution to your problem[1]. It simply is not widely used yet. See taginfo[2]: bus=long_distance (70 uses currently in the database) bus=interurban (59 uses currently in the database) It would be handy to standardize on one of those two. [1]<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Oxomoa/%C3%96PNV-Schema#Bus-_und_Oberleitungsbuslinien> [2]<http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/bus#values> On 05/26/2014 05:02 PM, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks to all for the replies on coach route mapping. > > I don't agree that this is purely a rendering problem. The information > needed to distinguish urban bus transit from long distance coach > services simply does not exist in the database at the moment and there > is no consistent way of tagging routes so that this distinction could > be made. > > Looking at the active public transport proposal again, the network tag > of route=bus/train/subway/tram could be part of a solution, but it > seems that the usage is not really consistent everywhere. For example, > in Helsinki the bus routes have network=Helsinki, subway has > network='Helsingin metro' and so on, even though both can be used > with the same ticket. This could be a local problem though. > > I still think that long distance services which are not part of an > urban transit network should be distinguished somehow, so I like the > idea of using service=express for coaches. This could mostly do what I > was proposing, if it would be widely used and the rendered correctly. > Currently this tag seems to be used only around Oxford and ignored by > tile rendering style sheets. > > The rendering of coach routes should be de-emphasized in high zoom > levels, i.e. they should be overdrawn by local transit bus lines, but > on the other hand they should be also drawn in low zoom levels, like > long distance train routes in Öpnvkarte are. > > Best, > Teemu > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit > -- --- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
