“Ease of mapping”? What do you mean with this? To speak frankly: There is no ease in mapping OSM bus routes if you stick to the OSM standards. That’s the main reason why there are so few passionate bus route mappers. What I could see in Anchorage so far is (imho) no mapping of bus ROUTES; it is merely a mapping of icons for green lamp posts in a row where buses use to stop from time to time. Who needs such an information? If you are interested in mapping bus ROUTES you should look up information on the OSM help side under “public tramsport” on 1. stop positions and 2. platforms and what OSM demands from a bus route mapping that works on navigation devices and thus makes sense to the customers.

Coming back to your comment of Sept, 3rd in which you wrote of a “pretty large project”. If you intend to map only platforms (not bus stops!). The issue with this plan is the question “why should anyone do an incomplete mapping?” People living in Anchorage know the bus lines they use and where the stops are. People visiting Anchorage (“tourists”) would rent a car or take a cab to get from A to B. If they had a reliable navigation system for bus routes, tourists would use the bus more often,

Don’t get me wrong. It is not my intention to talk your project down. Perhaps I didn’t understand what the real purpose of your project is. Anyway I think that I will finish line 10 sticking to OSM standard next week and maybe add more lines.

Just added the first part of bus route 10…. What do you think about this? regards ticki_52

Good morning ExecutableFiles, I (69 yo, from Backnang Germany) found it interesting to have a closer look into public tranport structures in Anchorage. It is amazing to see that OSM works similar no matter where you are. Just to give you an impression what bus route mapping with OSM is about I tagged the Anchorage Huffman line (91) like I would have done it in Germany. I mostly use the JOSM editor for tagging the route and setting die stop_positions and platforms. Using the iD-Editor I do some minor adjustments. If you look at the OSM-information of line 10 and 91 you will see that there is a lot of differences.

If you need further imformation just come back and send via email to email@chap.de (just to make sure that I get aware of your message…. ;-)

Have a nice day (now it is tea time with us…)

ticki_52