Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > Lars Aronsson wrote: > >> J.D. Schmidt wrote: >> >> >>> It doesn't matter if the busstop is on the right or left side of >>> the road... Neither OSM wise, nor in the real world. In the real >>> world you use your eyes and see the busstop. >>> > > >> Of course it matters which side the bus stop is on. You don't >> want to enter a bus that goes the wrong way, so you have to go to >> the right stop. This is as fundamental as which bus lines the >> stop is for. >> > > I agree with LA here. Sometimes a bus stop would be on both sides of the > road. Sometimes it would only be on one side while the one for the other > direction is around the corner. Not having this kind of data is (in my > personal data model view) not acceptable :-). > Al left/right is a bit ambigious, so far I tend to draw little service > roads and have a bus stop there. > > As for data, I tend to favor bus_line=123;direction=southampton or > something similar. (or direction=north would also be a good way). > Over here, most bus stops serve for more than one line, so north/west etc makes more sense to me than Brussels North Station/Airport personnel parking lot. Which are totally different locations where the different lines happen to go to.
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