But then how would an outsider know what the operator code or ID is, and where 
this operator+id is unique? If GTFS data is the source of your OSM stops, I 
would say a dataset reference is far more relevant than operators or network 
since the ID is unique in a GTFS dataset, but only in that dataset.

Overlapping datasets always cause problems of course, but only if they are not 
properly referenced.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Davidson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: fredag 19. januar 2018 04.12
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] Uploading public transport data on OSM

On 19/01/18 01:32, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Agreed; ref:gtfs just won't work, and ref:OPER probably would.
> 

I had always thought that ref was the public facing reference that is used (ie: 
what's on the bus stop sign) and in the GTFS scheme this is stop_code. The 
stop_id is supposed to be unique and is not necessarily the same as stop_code. 
Looking at taginfo the most common way to tag stop_id seems to be gtfs_id.

So if there is more than one stop_id for a stop (ie: appears in more than one 
GTFS feed) I would have thought something like:

gtfs_id:OPERATOR=<something>

I have read elsewhere that some mappers prefer to use NETWORK, rather than 
OPERATOR, because their systems get put up for tender for operation on a 
regular basis so NETWORK is more persistent.

I was wondering if there are more than one stop_id is it worthwhile tagging 
something like this:

gtfs_id=A1;B1;C1
gtfs_id:A=A1
gtfs_id:B=B1
gtfs_id:C=C1

So that the data consumers will find multiple values under gtfs_id and know to 
look for an operator or network value. Or is it better to leave it blank? I 
guess it would depend on whether or not you have put qualified gtfs_id's on 
everything or just the shared stops.

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