How to build routes with JOSM

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JOSM [1] is an editor for OpenStreetMap. We use it to clean raw gpx data and to add OSM relations between routes and bus stops.

Getting started

Upload the gpx track for your route. This will guide us in building the route.
Upload Mapnik map as background.
Customize track drawing in such a way that trackpoints are more visibles and colors help you to understand the correct direction.

How to create a new route

In OSM a route is a relation among ways and nodes (i.e. bus stops). A route relation is defined by some tags.

ref
name
route = bus
type = route
direction
from
to
network
operator

Ways and bus stops are members of a route relation. We will see in next sections how to add members.

How to add ways to an existing route

How to add stops to an existing route

How to upload to OpenStreetMap

How to check your routes

Acknowledgments

Simone Cortesi

References

[1] https://josm.openstreetmap.de/