Searching bus stops along route

openpoiservice
1

Hi,

I’m trying to use openpoiservice to locate all bus stops and stations (category ids 587 and 588) along a route (linestring), but I don’t see any results. It seems to work fine for other category ids under “transport”.

For example, request:

curl -X "POST" "https://api.openrouteservice.org/pois?api_key=..." \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d $'{
  "filters": {
    "category_ids": [
      587
    ]
  },
  "geometry": {
    "geojson": {
      "type": "LineString",
      "coordinates": [
        [8.800672,53.078612],[8.800748,53.078682],[8.801021,53.078871],[8.801418,53.079074],[8.801865,53.079283],
        [8.802125,53.079402],[8.802557,53.079612],[8.80298,53.079823],[8.803096,53.079886],[8.803136,53.079906],
        [8.803149,53.079945],[8.80313,53.080004],[8.803057,53.080028],[8.802997,53.080029],[8.802744,53.079874],
        [8.802538,53.079767],[8.802296,53.07964],[8.800948,53.079004],[8.800882,53.078973],[8.800798,53.078935],
        [8.800596,53.078818],[8.800539,53.078787],[8.800517,53.078774],[8.800472,53.07875],[8.800446,53.078736],
        [8.80047,53.078714],[8.80055,53.078641],[8.800661,53.078601],[8.800708,53.078565],[8.801572,53.078074],
        [8.801766,53.077966],[8.802075,53.077792],[8.80213,53.07776],[8.802302,53.077661],[8.802502,53.077542],
        [8.802697,53.077383],[8.802733,53.077353],[8.80279,53.077315],[8.802954,53.077203],[8.803536,53.076778],
        [8.803603,53.076716],[8.803646,53.076663],[8.803776,53.076508],[8.803942,53.07637],[8.804088,53.07616],
        [8.804143,53.076066],[8.804189,53.075987],[8.804311,53.075758],[8.804325,53.075624],[8.804403,53.075469],
        [8.804417,53.07545],[8.804472,53.075374],[8.804555,53.07526],[8.804561,53.075254],[8.804675,53.075154],
        [8.804749,53.075017],[8.804764,53.074983],[8.804811,53.074877],[8.804839,53.074811],[8.804882,53.074711],
        [8.804962,53.0746],[8.805091,53.074466],[8.805217,53.074356],[8.805411,53.074204],[8.805609,53.074062],
        [8.806065,53.073749],[8.806253,53.073617]
      ]
    },
    "buffer": 200
  },
  "request": "pois",
  "limit": 200
}'

…returns empty features. Category id 601 (parking) yields plenty of results.

– Topias

2

Greetings @topekan,

as we are consuming OpenStreetMap data it may very well be the case that this data is missing. To this end, I’d like to ask you to check https://openstreetmap.org first and let us know if there are actually bus stops in this polygon. If they are, we’ll investigate further.

Does this make sense?

Thank you, Tim

3

Hi @Timothy,

Many thanks for your answer. As you suggested, I have checked OpenStreetMaps (see https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=osrm_car&route=53.07842%2C8.80092%3B53.07648%2C8.80379#map=18/53.07746/8.80237 ) which seems to contain at least couple of bus stops.

Openrouteservicer.org corresponding API query is:

curl -X "POST" "https://api.openrouteservice.org/pois?api_key=..." \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d $'{
  "filters": {
    "category_ids": [
      587
    ]
  },
  "geometry": {
    "geojson": {
      "type": "LineString",
      "coordinates": [
        [8.800708,53.078565],[8.801572,53.078074],[8.801766,53.077966],
        [8.802075,53.077792],[8.80213,53.07776],[8.802302,53.077661],
        [8.802502,53.077542],[8.802697,53.077383],[8.802733,53.077353],
        [8.80279,53.077315],[8.802954,53.077203],[8.803536,53.076778],
        [8.803603,53.076716],[8.803646,53.076663],[8.803776,53.076508]
      ]
    },
    "buffer": 200
  },
  "request": "pois",
  "limit": 200
}'

…returning empty features.

Thanks,

Topias

4

Hi @topekan,

thanks for the digging! I think you’re right. The route you’re describing has only public_transport keys with several tags like platform or stop_position. We don’t consider those yet. Albeit we should.

You can see the keys/tags we use in the service here:

We’ll add this to the next release. Good catch!

Cheers
Nils

5

Track the progress here:

6

Thanks guys! And BTW many thanks for great service!

– Topias

7

@topekan this should now be working, could you give it a try? The category_ids can be found here:

I gave it a quick try and so far it looks promising

{
    "type": "FeatureCollection",
    "bbox": [
        8.799601,
        53.074295,
        8.808646,
        53.080763
    ],
    "features": [
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                    8.801572,
                    53.078074
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "osm_id": 768037547,
                "osm_type": 1,
                "distance": 0.03454071,
                "category_ids": {
                    "608": {
                        "category_name": "stop_position",
                        "category_group": "transport"
                    }
                },
                "osm_tags": {
                    "name": "Am Brill (Martinistraße), Bussteig D",
                    "wheelchair": "yes"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                    8.804202,
                    53.080531
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "osm_id": 35571761,
                "osm_type": 2,
                "distance": 92.70296451,
                "category_ids": {
                    "607": {
                        "category_name": "platform",
                        "category_group": "transport"
                    }
                },
                "osm_tags": {
                    "wheelchair": "yes",
                    "name": "Am Wall"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                    8.800289,
                    53.078495
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "osm_id": 416834383,
                "osm_type": 1,
                "distance": 23.83315628,
                "category_ids": {
                    "608": {
                        "category_name": "stop_position",
                        "category_group": "transport"
                    }
                },
                "osm_tags": {
                    "name": "Am Brill (Bgm.-Smidt-Straße), Bussteig/Gleis A",
                    "wheelchair": "yes"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                    8.808181,
                    53.074561
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "osm_id": 817605404,
                "osm_type": 1,
                "distance": 166.51141029,
                "category_ids": {
                    "608": {
                        "category_name": "stop_position",
                        "category_group": "transport"
                    }
                },
                "osm_tags": {
                    "name": "Domsheide"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                    8.808253,
                    53.074454
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "osm_id": 35667126,
                "osm_type": 2,
                "distance": 163.25364774,
                "category_ids": {
                    "607": {
                        "category_name": "platform",
                        "category_group": "transport"
                    }
                },
                "osm_tags": {
                    "name": "Bahnsteig 2",
                    "wheelchair": "yes"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                    8.808646,
                    53.07466
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "osm_id": 817605386,
                "osm_type": 1,
                "distance": 197.98739462,
                "category_ids": {
                    "608": {
                        "category_name": "stop_position",
                        "category_group": "transport"
                    }
                },
                "osm_tags": {
                    "wheelchair": "yes",
                    "name": "Domsheide"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
                    8.80861,
                    53.074601
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
                "osm_id": 67694131,
                "osm_type": 2,
                "distance": 192.26147539,
                "category_ids": {
                    "607": {
                        "category_name": "platform",
                        "category_group": "transport"
                    }
                },
                "osm_tags": {
                    "name": "Bussteig 1",
                    "wheelchair": "yes"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
            "geometry": {
                "type": "Point",
                "coordinates": [
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                    53.074668
                ]
            },
            "properties": {
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                "distance": 179.86014656,
                "category_ids": {
                    "607": {
                        "category_name": "platform",
                        "category_group": "transport"
                    }
                },
                "osm_tags": {
                    "wheelchair": "yes",
                    "name": "Bussteig A"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
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            },
            "properties": {
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                "distance": 57.968184,
                "category_ids": {
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                        "category_group": "transport"
                    }
                },
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                }
            }
        },
        {
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            },
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                "category_ids": {
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                        "category_group": "transport"
                    }
                },
                "osm_tags": {
                    "name": "Am Wall",
                    "wheelchair": "yes"
                }
            }
        },
        {
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                "category_ids": {
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            },
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                "osm_type": 1,
                "distance": 0.09922154,
                "category_ids": {
                    "608": {
                        "category_name": "stop_position",
                        "category_group": "transport"
                    }
                },
                "osm_tags": {
                    "name": "Martinistraße",
                    "wheelchair": "yes"
                }
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "Feature",
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                "coordinates": [
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            },
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                "distance": 157.24225916,
                "category_ids": {
                    "607": {
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                        "category_group": "transport"
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                },
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        },
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                "category_ids": {
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                        "category_name": "platform",
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                },
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            },
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                "category_ids": {
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                        "category_group": "transport"
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                },
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        {
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