> On Jul 12, 2017, at 1:52 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > I used to depend on a ferry for my commute[1] so the topic connects with me > as well. > > Looking at how this is currently mapped, I see some shortcomings we might > want to address: > * The duration is mostly mapped on the way, rather than the route=ferry > relation. Often the route is more than one way, wouldn’t it make more sense > to map duration as a tag on the relation?
Case in point, run this query and you see that the result is just the start / end stubs of the route, the ‘main’ ferry route way apparently has the duration tag: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/qlF > * The duration can be different depending on time of day / direction. > Accounting for that may make the tagging unwieldy so I’m inclined to not deal > with that, but what are your thoughts? > * Would it make sense to map hours / days of operation using the > opening_hours schema as well? > > Martijn > > [1] This was back in Amsterdam. There is a tunnel for motorized traffic to > the city, but the only option for cyclists and pedestrians (>50% of all > commutes!) is a ferry. It runs very frequently and the crossing is short, but > to optimize my commute I created a mobile web site that counted down to the > next departure, so I could quickly look up the time to the next departure so > I knew whether to pedal a little faster or slower. Defunct now but here is > the blog post for historical reference > https://oegeo.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/public-transit-schedule-encoding/ > <https://oegeo.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/public-transit-schedule-encoding/> > >> On Jul 12, 2017, at 1:24 PM, Nick Peihl <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi Martijn, >> >> As a resident of a ferry-served island in WA, I fully support adding this >> job to MapRoulette. Thanks! >> >> Nick >> >> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:57 AM, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Just to let you know, my map team colleagues have been adding a few >> `duration` tags to ferry routes in BC yesterday. Since this was already >> established practice, I am only mentioning it now. I am crossposting to >> talk-us because I wanted to see if folks there have given any thought to >> ferry duration tagging? The documented practice is to add duration=hh:mm to >> the way that makes up the ferry route. If you think this is fun to map I >> could add ferry routes without duration to MapRoulette. >> >> Here is the current state of duration tags in BC: >> http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/qlE <http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/qlE> >> >> Martijn >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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