On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 15:40 -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > I am trying to figure out the conventions used to map bus routes. I am > trying to find out how the ways making up the relation should be drawn > or used. > > Do the "ways making up the route" (as defined on Relations/Routes > proposal) must be actual highway-tagged ways, or they may be distinct > (maybe untagged) ways drawn over the highway ways?
The actual highway-tagged ways. > I am asking that because on some streets there may be many different bus > routes going through it with different entry/exit points. If the ways > making up the bus route must be the actual highway ways, those streets > will need to be splitted on many tiny little ways, so that each section > will belong to a different set of route relations. Did I understand it > correctly? Yes, this is correct. > Being able to draw a separated way for each bus route instead of splitting > the highways on small segments would avoid this, but I don't know if it > would be recommended. I wouldn't recommend it. They probably won't be supported by tools using OSM data. > Do you have other suggestions on how to avoid splitting the highway ways > into small pieces on those cases? Just do it, it doesn't matter. -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
