Re: [Tagging] Documentation issues of PT tagging schemes (was: Re: Public Transport v3 — starting RFC)

2018-07-24 Thread Leo Gaspard
Hi Ilya, I unfortunately won't be anywhere near Milan anytime soon, but thanks for the invitation :) The problem I can see with your proposal is that it appears to be based on PTv1, not on PTv2, which looks much more logical to me (even though I still don't understand it completely). I mean,

Re: [Tagging] Documentation issues of PT tagging schemes (was: Re: Public Transport v3 — starting RFC)

2018-07-24 Thread Ilya Zverev
Hi Leo, As a person who tried for many years not to touch any public transport in OSM because of hard to understand tagging, I share your pain about missing tutorials and instructions. The situation with these is a bit better in the Russian part of wiki, because we don't have hordes of mappers

Re: [Tagging] Documentation issues of PT tagging schemes (was: Re: Public Transport v3 — starting RFC)

2018-07-24 Thread Jo
The whole point of wanting to move to a simpler tagging scheme is to become able to write simple to understand documentation. Dropping the "v1" tags that some like to call 'deprecated' is not possible, because then your stops don't render. Replacing highway=bus_stop by public_transport=platform

[Tagging] Documentation issues of PT tagging schemes (was: Re: Public Transport v3 — starting RFC)

2018-07-24 Thread Leo Gaspard
My point of view, as a beginner in OSM who still hasn't understood how PTv1 and PTv2 are supposed to work (and thus didn't read this specific proposal, take this as generic comments on PT tagging in OSM): 1. Beginners are already at a loss, introducing a third (!) tagging scheme will just make