Thanks for the input.
I like the idea of tram:type=rubber-tyred
But the main sticking point (at least on the French list) that I've seen
seems to be the word "railway", since tram is defined as a subdivision of
that. ("How can you call it a tram if there's no steel rail?") I'm thinking
that perhaps something like
transitway=tram/bus/train/subway
might be a better tag for dedicated transit ways. (Obviously this would not
work for ways where cars share the space; those would still need a
highway=* tag rather than transitway=*)
By the way, I'm only posing this question because I was helping a newbie
who wanted to do some mapping of trams. I personally stick to mapping buses.
On balance, it seems to me that the tagging should reflect the term used to
publicize the line by the operator, rather than some esoteric technicality
knowable only to civil engineers and wiki readers. This is keeping the end
user in mind. If I am in Lyon and I know there's a tram "somewhere nearby",
but it's tagged as a bus_guideway, my search results will be:
google maps = found
bing maps = found
OSM = zero
... and I will no doubt start grumbling ...
On the other hand, if the operator advertises it as a bus, I'll have no
problem, assuming my search engine will find a bus_guideway (with stops
appropriately tagged as bus=yes).
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com>
wrote:
> After looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-tyred_trams
> especially "The Translohr system operates as a guided vehicle at all
> times,
> while with the Bombardier system the vehicles can be driven autonomously
> as requirements dictate, such as journeys to the depot."
>
> I would define Translohr system as a tram and Bombardier system as a bus
> on a guideway.
>
> This vehicle is on the edge between these two systems, and classification
> depends on
> a definition used - so in the end I would be OK with any decision (both
> tram and
> bus_guideway are defensible).
>
> 16. Jun 2018 01:08 by ok...@johnfreed.com:
>
>
> Maybe a solution is:
>
> railway=tram
> tram: type = bus_guideway
>
>
> Maybe tram:type = rubber-tyred?
>
>
> (name stolen from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-tyred_trams )
>
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