Local transit in the town of Głuchołazy
Posted by Endres Pelka on 21 April 2020 in English. Last updated on 3 August 2022.While visiting my hometown in June 2019, I made a day trip to nearby Głuchołazy, to register the routes and stops of the local buses.
I got to do the edits first in April 2020, though. Meanwhile, some things changed in Głuchołazy: another company overtook the local transit, some new lines appeared and the existing lines’ numbers changed. When editing, I used the most current timetables from the town’s website.
I only worked out those lines, for which I knew where the bus stops are: either from my own data from last trip, or already entered by other contributors, or from aerial photos and my best guesswork (with a fixme
when in doubt). Unfortunately, local transit carriers don’t care much about publishing the coordinates of their bus stops; we can be happy if there’s any form of timetable on the web. Who cares bou’ tourists, duh…? All de village’s dudes already know, where da damn bus stops. We, the OpenStreetMap contributors, can add this information and help some travellers from getting lost.
By comparing the official timetables and my GPS traces, I spotted a mistake. During the trip with line number 6, the bus took a slightly different route than the official timetable would suggest. Therefore, this line’s relation in OpenStreetMap resembles the facts from first hand, not the official info.
Tagging convention
When mapping the bus stops, I assumed the simplified approach to PTv2. Briefly:
- The position at which the passenger boards (flag, platform) gets mapped as
public_transport=platform
,highway=bus_stop
with name and details known. On bus stations with multiple numbered platforms, the number goes inlocal_ref
. - Not mapping
public_transport=stop_position
at all. - Avoiding the mapping of
stop_area
relation; both in ÖPNVKarte as well as in Transport Map, same-named stops in close proximity are automatically grouped.