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Is there a tag to store bus intervals?

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Is there an OSM tag to store bus intervals at different times of the day?

asked 15 Jan '15, 10:55

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I believe the most widely used tag is headway, but this is a) not used very much, b) a somewhat obscure term. It is also mainly used with a single value, presumable the typical service interval during the day.

It is not something I have tagged myself, and I certainly agree with others that in many cases trying to enter such a tag on OSM is not useful. That being said, there is clearly some utility in being able to discriminate on something like the Public Transport layer between services based on frequency of service. (And although such information can be gathered from things like GTFS it is often non-trivial to provide a concise summary).

answered 15 Jan '15, 16:32

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And the wiki page for the headway tag then refers to a later proposal for an "interval" tag: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Interval It's still not used very much though: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/interval#overview

(15 Jan '15, 17:03) neuhausr

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Not that I know of, and I'm doubtful there would be, because:

  1. that would be a really complex tagging scheme, probably using some variant on the opening hours scheme
  2. it could potentially change so much it would be difficult to keep updated in OSM
  3. it might make more sense to use something like the Google Transit Feed Specification, which is specifically tailored to distribute this kind of information

answered 15 Jan '15, 16:07

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edited 15 Jan '15, 16:14

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Hello !

I'm not sure that this kind of tagging will help many people. Bus frequencies often change every year. Are you willing to change these ? If you don't people will complain OSM information is not accurate.

I would link the the website of the bus operator with the tag

website=http://...

best regards,

DF45

answered 15 Jan '15, 16:09

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