Ottawa is different. The passengers complain if the bus is one minute early
or five minutes late. Quite unlike London in the UK where I used to live.
I think it stems from the minus 30c in winter time, with wind chill it can
be even colder, the passengers typically turn up about two minutes before
the bus.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Cheerio John
On 10 June 2010 20:25, Roland Olbricht <roland.olbri...@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > You may want to follow
> > > British/German standard. There is a tag that identifies stops uniquely,
> > > sorry can't recall at the moment. The last time I saw it was
> > > Siegburg/Bonn train station.
>
> Do you mean the "ref" tag as on node 160621? I'd strongly advice not to
> follow
> that way. The "ref" has also been used to list the lines stopping there and
> should not be used for something else.
>
> I've never seen any item that identifies bus stops uniquely in Germany or
> Britain and is visible to the ordinary passenger. It is also not needed -
> all
> bus stops with the same name in the same town are usually very close
> together
> (just stops for different directions). But being unique would be never
> stated
> as a formal constraint. Buses sometimes stop at two nearby stops with the
> same
> name. Thus there is nothing comparable to the stop_code here in Germany.
>
> John, I would advice you to just set name to the stop_code if this is the
> thing displayed on the bus stops. It is very different from the northern
> European system. But passenger (or traveller) information is the primary
> goal
> of the OSM data. Thus a useful information in the tag that is expected to
> be
> crucial ("name") is probably the best solution for Ottawa.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roland
>
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