Since you brought this up, where I live there is a bus network for which people can hail anywhere. Mostly. There are some parts of town, such as in downtown, in which there are specific stops for this service. In most areas it is completely at the passengers' will. This network coexists with another network for which people can only board from designated stops.
Moovit supports that service by >> assuming << that users may only hail from regular bus stops - probably the only way they could make it work with their journey planner. Should something similar be done in OSM? (I believe it should not, but anyway.) On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/01/2018 12:00, Georg Feddern wrote: >> >> I am quite sure that in _reality_ a stop _or_ a platform is mandatory in a >> public transport route - otherwise you would just have a route with >> 'hitchhiking'? > > > In the real world, that happens. As well as public transport routes with > _only_ the route defined (no stops) there are also those with _only_ the > stops defined and the driver decides how to get to the next one base on > traffic. Also there are "request" routes where there are defined stops, but > not in a defined order. The above examples all exist in the UK, but think > about public transport worldwide (minibus taxis in South Africa, for > example) and things aren't always quite so "nailed down" as they might be > elsewhere. > > Best Regards, > Andy > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "Nullius in verba." _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
