I would not drop the ref. The ref is visible on the signs, so it is a "real thing". I have no problem that people add the URL as well. The same is done for heritage sites. There is both a ref (refLOnroerendErfgoed and a heritage:website.)
m. On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 10:52 AM Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Our bus stops in Flanders have unique identifiers visible to the public on > the flags of the stop poles. > > I started by entering those in the ref tag, then later decided to use > ref:De_Lijn=y0yyyy, as some of those stops are served by other operators as > well. > > For several years now itt's possible to obtain real-time information about > the buses on a url+identifier, so I want to add that to those stops. As i > don't like to duplicate information I'd prefer to drop the ref:De_Lijn though. > > So all of those stops would have: > url=http://mijnlijn.be/303079 (<- you can test this, the url is > expanded/translated to a url on www.delijn.be) > > For the conversion, I'd like to launch a Belgian "Project of the month", so > the position of the stops can be verified once more by locals, but also > shelters and bus_bays can be added and if cycle ways split off to go around > those bus bays, that detail can be added as well. > > I know that that is what we have been doing for the past 5+ years, but now it > would get some more dedicated focus. > > For several years I thought having the identifier n a dedicated ref:X tag and > then telling everyone about how to turn it into such a url was the way to > go,. That doesn't actually work though. Nobody knows how to get from the > identifer to the url. Giving potential passengers a url they can simply click > through on, seems to be the better way of doing this for this use case. > > Polyglot > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
