Interesting. Similarly, a route that is not closed can be a roundtrip. The start and end points might be several meters apart, even on different roads, yet serve the same destination. There are a few (very few) examples I have found in the Paris area. Here's one. It's not marked roundtrip=yes but probably should be:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8140184 I agree that this tag seems to be of very limited usefulness, though I confess to having used it on occasion. On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25/05/18 15:48, Peter Elderson wrote: > > What is the use of the key:roundtrip? > Explanations just say > roundtrip <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:roundtrip>=yes/no > (optional) > Use roundtrip=no to indicate that a route goes from A to B. Use > roundtrip=yes to indicate that the start and finish of the route are at the > same location (circular route). It seems rather pointless to tag an > obvious a-b route with roundtrip=no, or an abvious roundtrip with > roundtrip=yes. > Why would you tag an a-b route as roundtrip=yes, or a closed route as > roundtrip=no? > > > A route that is 'closed' can be a non round trip. > For example the bus only does one circuit then goes on to another route > elsewhere. This can be done to provide services to both that route and to > other parts of the community with other routes. > There may not be enough demand for a continuous circuit to be viable. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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