Am 11.06.2010 02:25, schrieb Roland Olbricht: >>> 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.
We have a number for each pair of busstops in Freiburg, Germany. It is written on the top of the busstop-sign. We also have HAFAS code which gives you a unique number for every busstop in Germany. This number works on the major transportation-webpages like www.bahn.de and it is much faster to find a connection with these numbers than to look for your busstop with latin-letters. cu colliar _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
