I used to depend on a ferry for my commute[1] so the topic connects with me as well.
Looking at how this is currently mapped, I see some shortcomings we might want to address: * The duration is mostly mapped on the way, rather than the route=ferry relation. Often the route is more than one way, wouldn’t it make more sense to map duration as a tag on the relation? * The duration can be different depending on time of day / direction. Accounting for that may make the tagging unwieldy so I’m inclined to not deal with that, but what are your thoughts? * Would it make sense to map hours / days of operation using the opening_hours schema as well? Martijn [1] This was back in Amsterdam. There is a tunnel for motorized traffic to the city, but the only option for cyclists and pedestrians (>50% of all commutes!) is a ferry. It runs very frequently and the crossing is short, but to optimize my commute I created a mobile web site that counted down to the next departure, so I could quickly look up the time to the next departure so I knew whether to pedal a little faster or slower. Defunct now but here is the blog post for historical reference https://oegeo.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/public-transit-schedule-encoding/ <https://oegeo.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/public-transit-schedule-encoding/> > On Jul 12, 2017, at 1:24 PM, Nick Peihl <nick.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Martijn, > > As a resident of a ferry-served island in WA, I fully support adding this job > to MapRoulette. Thanks! > > Nick > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:57 AM, <m...@rtijn.org <mailto:m...@rtijn.org>> > wrote: > Hi all, > > Just to let you know, my map team colleagues have been adding a few > `duration` tags to ferry routes in BC yesterday. Since this was already > established practice, I am only mentioning it now. I am crossposting to > talk-us because I wanted to see if folks there have given any thought to > ferry duration tagging? The documented practice is to add duration=hh:mm to > the way that makes up the ferry route. If you think this is fun to map I > could add ferry routes without duration to MapRoulette. > > Here is the current state of duration tags in BC: > http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/qlE <http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/qlE> > > Martijn > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-us@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us> >
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