Proposal:Public Transport v2 Vehicle Type "coach"
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| Public Transport v2 Vehicle Type "coach" | |
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| Proposal status: | Obsoleted (inactive) |
| Proposed by: | Ialokim |
| Tagging: | route=coach |
| Applies to: | 
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| Definition: | Add the new vehicle type "coach" for Public Transport v2 |
| Statistics: |
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| Rendered as: | None |
| Draft started: | 2017-10-01 |
| RFC start: | 2017-10-03 |
Proposal
The proposal adds the possibility to differentiate city bus routes from coach routes according to the current Public Transport Scheme v2.
Rationale
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There's a clear difference between buses that only run inside a city (transit bus service, short distance) and buses that interconnect two or more cities (intercity bus service, long distance). It is almost as significant as the difference between route=train and route=tram which indeed is tagged by two different values.
An intercity bus service (North American English) or intercity coach service (British English and Commonwealth English), also called a long-distance, express, over-the-road, commercial, long-haul, or highway bus or coach service, is a public transport service using coaches to carry passengers significant distances between different cities, towns, or other populated areas. Unlike a transit bus service, which has frequent stops throughout a city or town, an intercity bus service generally has a single stop at one location in or near a city, and travels long distances without stopping at all.
— Wikipedia
The introduction on the OSM-Wiki-Page about Buses also mentions "coaches" apart from "buses" and "trolleybuses", but only the latter two have different tagging values, whereas coach routes are supposed to use the same route=bus. This leads to confusion between the two types of (inter- and intra-city) bus routes because there is no difference visible to rendering engines (and thus to the user) or other data consuming programs.
Also consider that there's already a OSM-Wiki-Page for the tag route=coach that states that it is unofficial and lacks a proposal. Nevertheless, there are already 59 relations that use this tag (as of October 1st) and there are a lot of coach routes to change. See also Fernbuslinien (in German) where it is proposed to use route=coach instead of route=bus.
Examples
There are a lot of examples all around the world that are currently not distinguishable from city bus routes, see sample Overpass-Query for Germany.
Tagging
On the route-relation of coach-services:
- type=route
- route=coach
- (many others, see Relation:route)
On the public_transport=stop_positions of a coach-route:
- coach=yes
- (many others, see Tag:public_transport=stop_position)
On the master_route-relation of coach-services:
- type=route_master
- route_master=coach
- (many others, see Relation:route_master)
Basically, this proposal adds three new tags: route=coach, route_master=coach and coach=yes.
Rendering
route=coach should be rendered differently than route=bus to facilitate distinction.
Features/Pages affected
- type=route
- type=route_master
- route=coach
- public_transport=stop_position
- Buses
- Fernbuslinien
- Public_transport#Buses
- Relation:route
External discussions
Comments
Please comment on the discussion page.