What about a three-level service scheme for buses: Service=local (transit system bus lines) Service=commuter (express commuter buses to the suburbs) Service=intercity (like the American Greyhound bus routes)
There might be grey areas but it should be fairly easy to fit most routes in one of these three categories. Bill R. WASHBURN On May 26, 2014 11:03 AM, "Teemu Ikonen" <tpiko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks to all for the replies on coach route mapping. > > I don't agree that this is purely a rendering problem. The information > needed to distinguish urban bus transit from long distance coach > services simply does not exist in the database at the moment and there > is no consistent way of tagging routes so that this distinction could > be made. > > Looking at the active public transport proposal again, the network tag > of route=bus/train/subway/tram could be part of a solution, but it > seems that the usage is not really consistent everywhere. For example, > in Helsinki the bus routes have network=Helsinki, subway has > network='Helsingin metro' and so on, even though both can be used > with the same ticket. This could be a local problem though. > > I still think that long distance services which are not part of an > urban transit network should be distinguished somehow, so I like the > idea of using service=express for coaches. This could mostly do what I > was proposing, if it would be widely used and the rendered correctly. > Currently this tag seems to be used only around Oxford and ignored by > tile rendering style sheets. > > The rendering of coach routes should be de-emphasized in high zoom > levels, i.e. they should be overdrawn by local transit bus lines, but > on the other hand they should be also drawn in low zoom levels, like > long distance train routes in Öpnvkarte are. > > Best, > Teemu > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit >
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