Author: Ldp
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.50pm, Monday, 31st August 2009]

Examples of such a relation? Will the separate bus stops also carry the same name=* ?

Author: Ed Avis
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.54pm, Tuesday, 1st September 2009]

Have a look at relation 206318, added by the Naptan bus stop import in London.
It has a name and contains two bus stop nodes.

Sometimes the individual nodes have a 'local_ref' or 'ref' attribute, which in London
is a single letter. This is a marker shown on the bus stop to help you find the
one you want, in places where many bus stops are near each other. This 'local_ref'
could be shown on the individual nodes at zoom level 18.

It seems that from the Naptan import, the individual nodes also have a name tag,
but I think that if the stop is part of a relation it would be better to use the
name of the relation.

Author: Ed Avis
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.52am, Sunday, 6th September 2009]

I can see little blue squares appearing at zoom level 16. Thank you!

To give an idea about how the 'local_ref' might be rendered, have a look at
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/pdf/cityoflondonnightbuses-13504.pdf.
The letters 'A' to 'Z' match the one shown at the top of each stop, as in this illustration:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/BUS_STOP_LONDON_v2.jpg.
Not every bus stop has such a letter - only where there are several close together.

I don't know whether other cities use a similar scheme or if it's tagged using 'local_ref' or 'ref', but there is certainly a lot of bus stop data in London like this.

Author: Ed Avis
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.05pm, Tuesday, 8th September 2009]

One snag is that the dots for bus stop are easy to confuse with the dots for natural=tree, for example in http://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/16/32749/21786.png
which comes from http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.52738&lon=-0.1019&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF.

To my eyes, the 'tree' dot looks more blue than green, especially when rendered against the cream-coloured background in this tile. Perhaps natural=tree needs tweaking to be a darker, greener kind of green?

Author: Mateusz Konieczny
[Added to the original trac issue at 6.01am, Thursday, 3rd July 2014]

" I can see little blue squares appearing at zoom level 16. Thank you! "