Key:gtfs:location_type

The key gtfs:location_type=* is used in Public transportation tagging to add the location_type from the GTFS stops.txt file to a platform/station/entrance/ ... .

It is used to find a corresponding location in a GTFS feed. For this the feed needs to be specified using a feed code suffix (see List of GTFS feeds).

For a longer explanation on how to reference a GTFS feed, look at GTFS.

Defaults

The value of gtfs:location_type=* can often be inferred from the type of PTv2 object it is tagged on:

PTv2 object	GTFS object	location_type
public_transport=platform (preferred)	stop	0
public_transport=stop_position
highway=bus_stop
railway=stop
railway=platform
railway=tram_stop
amenity=ferry_terminal
public_transport=station	station	1
public_transport=stop_area
public_transport=stop_area_group
railway=station
railway=halt
aerialway=station
railway=subway_entrance	entrance/exit	2
railway=train_station_entrance

If an object matches none of these tags, or multiple tags that would give it different values, then gtfs:location_type=* must be explicitly tagged.

Example

Consider Nijmegen bus station, it is a station so we can find it in the file stops.txt in the GTFS feed.

Below is a section of that table:

stops.txt

stop_id	stop_code	stop_name	location_type	parent_station	platform_code	...
2547419	60001013	Nijmegen, Centraal Station	0 (platform)	stoparea:122872	M
stoparea:122872		Nijmegen, Centraal Station	1 (station)

Adding only gtfs:stop_name:NL-OVApi=Nijmegen, Centraal Station is not sufficient, as that can refer to the bus station and all it's platforms.

To refer only to the bus station we can add gtfs:location_type:NL-OVApi=1.

However, we can leave that out since the OSM feature is a public_transport=stop_area, which implies a value of 1.