Tag:highway=bus stop
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highway=bus_stop
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Definition
This tag is for a bus stop, which may be identified by a pole, a shelter or in rare cases may be a customary stop but not with any physical infrastructure.
Usage (node positioning)
The most widely accepted approach is to place bus stops nodes off to one side of the highway way, so not with node being part of the way. This easily captures the important information about which side of the road the bus stop is on, however this has been the subject of some debate, because it has the disadvantage of not explicitly associating the bus stop with the way (a headache for routing software) See discussion
A bus stop should be defined for each discrete location where buses stop. If there are two places where buses stop on either side of the road then two bus stops should be defined.
If there are three bus stops in a row on one side of the road then there should be three stops identified.
A bus stop is a type of Stop Point as defined in Transmodel.
Use operator= for the name of the company that operates the bus route. If there is a stop number use ref= to denote it, you may also considering adding a url= if there is an online resource listing a bus timetable.
- There is, at present, no official method of labelling which routes stop at a particular stop. I have been using the note=Routes 4 32 convention. --Mungewell 23:34, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
- At present there is not a way to denote whether there is a shelter located at the stop or not. Maybe shelter=[yes|no] can be used, in rural locations a single shelter might serve for stops in both directions. --Mungewell 23:44, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
