ÖPNVKarte

ÖPNVKarte ( öpnvkarte.de ) is a public transport map derived from the OpenStreetMap database which puts a special value on the representation of public transport. The map is now available worldwide.

ÖPNVKarte was developed, and is maintained by Melchior Moos. The data is not being updated regularly. From July 2020 to January 2024, it was one of the featured tile layers.

Tags

The following tags particularly relating to public transport are represented apart from the standard tags for ways and areas.

Note that this documents the tags supported by the public transport renderer here and not necessarily the cleanest way to map. Most meaningful is an ordered relation per direction of travel with the positions of the platforms or stopping places put on. There is a complete proposal to record public transport routes at User:Oxomoa/Public transport schema.

Stops

Tag	Geometry	Description
highway=bus_stop, amenity=bus_station		Bus stop
railway=station, railway=halt		Railway station
railway=tram_stop		Tram stop
amenity=ferry_terminal		Ferry Stop
highway=platform, public_transport=platform, railway=platform, railway=stop,		Stop, type depends on additional tags such as rail=yes, bus=yes, trolleybus=yes etc.

Additional tags that are evaluated:

Tag	Description
name=*	Stop name
ref=*	Stop name if name tag is not set (with platforms)
bus=yes	Buses stop here
rail=yes	Trains stop here
light_rail=yes	Light rail trains stop here
subway=yes	Underground trains stop here
tram=yes	Trams stop here
ferry=yes	Ferries stop here
trolleybus=yes	Trolleybuses stop here
funicular=yes	Funiculars stop here

Stations

Tag	Type	Description
public_transport=stop_area		To join stations and stops together name=* should be entered
site=stop_area		To join stations and stops together name=* should be entered

Stops without joining relation are automatically combined into stations. If you are not happy with the result create a relation.

Lines

Principal line information is derived from relations. Whether each direction of travel has its own relation is put on is relatively insignificant for the map display; a separate set is however essential for applications that need the exact process of a trip.

Tag	Type	Description
line=rail or route=train		Railway line
line=light_rail or route=light_rail		Light rail line
line=subway or route=subway		Underground line
line=tram or route=tram		Tram route
line=bus or route=bus		Bus route
line=trolleybus or route=trolleybus		Trolleybus route
line=funicular or route=funicular		Funicular route
line=ferry or route=ferry		Ferry route

Additional tags that are evaluated:

Tag	Description
ref=*	Line number
name=*	Line name, not yet displayed
from=*	Start of the line “which is indicated in the reverse direction”
to=*	Destination of the line “which is indicated”

Roles of the members

The evaluated roles of the members are identical, all the same whether a relation per direction or per line is put on. The forward/backward roles are always needed for that to represent the small directional markers, even if the information could be derived during separate collection of the direction of travel theoretically also from the individual sorted routes of the line by alignment. To reporta line by clicking on a stop the platforms must be contained in the relations. To report the routing they must also be in order.

Role	Type	Description
empty (alternatively also route)		Way that that is part of the line in both directions.
forward		Way that is part of the route in the direction of the way.
backward		Way that is part of the route against the direction of the way.
alternate		Way that is only occasionally used by the line. (not yet implemented)
stop/platform		Stop/platform where the line stops in both directions. On nodes the role can be left out, but it is better used. The role can also be “stop_X” or “platform_X” because only the beginning of the role is checked.
forward_stop/forward_platform		Stop/platform where the line stops in the direction from from=* towards to=*. On nodes the role can just be “forward”. The role can also be “forward_stop_X” or “forward_platform_X” because only the beginning of the role is checked.
backward_stop/backward_platform		Stop/platform where the line stops in the direction from to=* towards from=*. On nodes the role can just be “backward”. The role can also be “backward_X” or “backward_platform_X” because only the beginning of the role is checked.
alternate_stop/alternate_platform		Stop or platform where the line only stops occasionally. On nodes the role can just be “alternate”. The role can also be “alternate_stop_X” or “alternate_platform_X” because only the beginning of the role is checked.

The ordering of the relation only plays a role with the stops at the moment, it is however better for the entire relation to be ordered. It is however only relevant that the ordering of the ways, the forward stops and the backward stops among themselves means that the stops do not have to lie between the correct ways.

Additional public transport related stuff

Tag	Geometry	Description
aeroway=aerodrome		Airports. The zoomlevel where the airport will become visible depends on the aerodrome=* tag. aerodrome=international are the first airports that will be rendered, followed by aerodrome=continental and aerodrome=regional. On tie the tag passengers=* decides.
amenity=taxi		Taxi rank
amenity=bicycle_rental		Bicycle rental
amenity=car_rental		Car rental
amenity=car_sharing		Car sharing
amenity=parking		Parking spot where you can leave you car

Practical notes

It is to be noted that “forward” and “backward”, as described above, have nothing to do with the outwards and the return directions. It is therefore possible for ways in the direction “from→to” to be both “forward” and “backward”. They relate to roads whose OSM directions the route follows or goes against. For example a route against the direction of traffic along a one-way street is tagged “backward” (if it does not have oneway=-1), whether the bus is on the outwards or return trip.

If a relation is not put on for each direction of travel most stations must be registered with two stops: Once with “forward_stop” and once with “backward_stop”, in order for the representation of the line to be indicated correctly (example: http://www.öpnvkarte.de/route.php?name=37&id=225469 or http://www.öpnvkarte.de/?lat=50.07109&lon=8.23781&zoom=16&layers=BT). That naturally has a real advantage only if the bus stops in both directions of travel are mapped as separate nodes and are assigned correctly in each case, so that finally each node is only in the relation once. It is considered that the sequence is “as you would sit and would write in the bus”, the first “forward_stop” is thus also the departure place indicated as “from”. In addition, it is the last “backward_stop” of all. The destination stop indicated as “to” appears exactly in the middle of the stop list twice directly one behind the other, once as the last “forward_stop” and then as the first “backward_stop”. The trip route and the stop list can thus be separated appropriately, for example recording only the entire journey from the “from” point to the “to” point (with all ways only travelled on in one direction if necessary) into the relation. Subsequently you can insert only all “forward_stop”s and afterwards all of the “backward_stop”s. This has the advantage that if necessary you can compare an existing stop list directly with the stops existing in the OSM relation.

In this way one finds registered lines for example in Wiesbaden: bus routes 1, 8, 8B, 18, 37, see also Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund/Bus Wiesbaden.

Öpnvkarte elsewhere

If you can't use ö on your keyboard or remember the name of the site, the whole thing is proxied through openbusmap.org

Öpnvkarte tiles are also presented on the following sites as a layer:

• sautter.com
• OSM Inspector
• Mappa Mercia
• Bestofosm
• erdapfel.org
• openstreetmap.no (layer Kollektivtransport)
• FacilMap

and on the following mobile apps:

• OsmAnd app for Android
• Galileo Offline Maps app for iOS

Bugs

Post Bugs and suggestions for improvement on the talk page and if necessary tell Melchior Moos about it.

On the website it says to contact info@memomaps.de .

See also

• Public Transport - for all things transport
• Buses - for all things bus related
• Openptmap project recreating some of the features of Öpnvkarte
• List of OSM-based services

External links

• Remove OPVNKarte from featured layers list