Comments on: Look ma, no hands!

By: Longwayround

Longwayround — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:53:43 +0000

Bus routes are rendered at http://öpnvkarte.de/

I’ve no idea how frequently they are updated but I’ve had some success with a few routes in the Preston area.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:40:50 +0000

Bus routes that only follow a particular road in one direction should get forward/backward on the route relation – see e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravitystorm/2771299743/ and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route

By: Corriere

Corriere — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:26:42 +0000

A question: Bus routes (and tram routes as well) often have directed loops which means they hav special oneway rules on their own. Afaik there aren’t yet any tagging conventions to tackle that problem. Any ideas, tips, suggestions?

By: Joel Holdsworth

Joel Holdsworth — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:17:40 +0000

Hi,

Has there been any progress lately on an open bus/public transport layer? I’ve been adding bus routes in my area, and I’d quite like a way of viewing them… it’d promote people recording them as well. Is there any move toward doing this?

All the best
Joel

By: Eimai

Eimai — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:15:41 +0000

Belgian rules are well described here btw http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Belgium/Conventions/Walking_Routes
For the Netherlands there’s a page at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Wandelroutenetwerken (in Dutch) describing the walking node networks. I have the impression those are the only efforts of writing conventions for walking routes.

By: Eimai

Eimai — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:06:50 +0000

Well, the Dutch cycle map renders them in the layer “wandelroutes”, see http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/~rubke/fietskaart/index.html?zoom=11&lat=51.19518&lon=4.46029&layers=B0000FTFFFFFTFFFT for example.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:07:14 +0000

Seems to be a wide mixture. In Germany there’s lots of use of “hiking”, in London there’s “ldp” (for long distance path) and like you say there’s other stuff in the NL. I think because nothing is rendered or used there’s no standards yet!

By: Eimai

Eimai — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:51:12 +0000

What are the tags being used for the walking routes in the UK? I found nothing in the wiki about it. In Belgium and the Netherlands we’re tagging as “nwn” for long distance paths crossing the country, “rwn” for the walking node networks (yeah, we really like those node networks ) and “lwn” for the small themed routes (usually loops of 10-15km). Basically to make it just like the cycle nodes because the routes are similar, so it makes sense if you did the same in the UK

By: Tom Chance

Tom Chance — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:19:36 +0000

Very nice! I’ve heard you’re looking at displaying multiple routes side by side as well, that will be very interesting for relations like bus routes.

I’ll certainly have a look at adding walking routes to the green map we’re making of Sutton with OSM data & tools.