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Linato, I probably should not have said “So if you add the tag “bus=yes” you will see the bus icon turn into a seat icon at the next PE map update” as a known fact, it’s just a theory of mine that it is the bus=yes tag that PE is reacting to. It is some tag rendering issue for sure and the real issue is with OSM. After working on the public transportation structure of OSM for some hours I now realize that buses in particular are really messed up in OSM and therefore also in PE, you are lucky to have it in your area. In Seattle there are only a few obscure bus routes and only about 25% of the bus stops mapped.
Linato, I am also seeing this and can provide more information. By joining Open Street Map (www.osm.org) you can see and edit the maps, you can add a bus stop (stand) or edit it or delete it. Then when PE updates from OSM your change will be there. Opening PE and OSM side by side and looking at two bus icons near each other, one is a seat icon and the other is a bus icon, in OSM these objects are called Nodes and they have Tags. The bus icon has a tag “highway=bus_stop”. The seat icon has that tag and also another tag “bus=yes”.
So if you add the tag “bus=yes” you will see the bus icon turn into a seat icon at the next PE map update.
Either tag can have a Route or routes associated with it, these are called Relations, and in PE if you select an icon that has routes related to it those routes also light up. Both the bus and the seat icons can have routes but the bus icon rarely has them and the seat icon often does.
I suspect that PE renders those two icons in different ways. If true, then you are asking PE to render bus stops (icon with the tag “bus=yes”) at different zoom levels.
In your original post you say “Does anyone know, what is the source for bus lines? Openstreetmap doesn’t seam to have bus lines.” The bus lines are there in OSM, to make one you start with a node then add another node to make a line or ‘way’ as it is called. Then you tag the way with information and add a relation to a bus stop if you like.
It is very easy to add and edit to the maps and it can be done with an app as you are waiting at the bus stop.
I hope this helps and I hope someone corrects my errors as I am no expert and just starting out.
I am having a similar issue with Rome and Bologna, suspect it is a global issue. In Rome, touch a bus stop- no routes at all. But, touch a subway station and the subway line shows up. Then, touch a bus stop, Bus Lines show up, perfect. Bologna has no subway, bus stop do not show bus lines. So go to Rome and touch a subway station, then scroll to Bologna and touch a bus stop- now you get bus lines.
What do you think? I am looking for a setting in the menus.
VB
