Re: [Talk-transit] New administrator and comments/questions on the new public transport schema

2011-05-02 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
Hi Peter On 05/02/2011 06:23 PM, Peter Miller wrote: Thanks, but that doesn't answer how one avoids getting two station names rendered, one from the node positioned at exactly where one wants it and which can be used in route relations and another from the centre of the area? The idea of the

Re: [Talk-transit] New administrator and comments/questions on the new public transport schema

2011-05-01 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
Hi Peter On 05/01/2011 10:49 AM, Peter Miller wrote: Just to say that I have just set Stefan Bethke up as an admin. There are now two administrators, myself and Stefan which is much better. I would like to also say how impressed I am with the new public transport schema which is proving to be

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - Public Transport - Voting

2011-03-31 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)te...@teddy.ch wrote: Hi Voting is open for public transport proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport Regards Teddy ___ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism - a real example from Zürich

2011-02-08 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
Here we're getting into one of the uglier parts of transport mapping - large terminals (amenity=bus_station) with multiple stop positions and platforms. I deliberately left that out of the proposal I presented (my plan is to present that as a later extension). Do you have an idea how it will

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism - a real example from Zürich

2011-02-06 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 02/07/2011 12:23 AM, Michael von Glasow wrote: On 02/05/2011 06:09 PM, Richard Mann wrote: On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Michael von Glasow mich...@vonglasow.com wrote: if I may just comment on the relation: I would also use stop rather than forward_stop and backward_stop for the roles

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism - a real example from Zürich

2011-02-02 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 02.02.2011 13:04, Michał Borsuk wrote: Let's just get down to differences, I say your proposal is too difficult. I've already spoken well about its data integrity, but new users don't care about it. We need something that is as good as yours in data integrity, and as easy to grasp as my

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism - a real example from Zürich

2011-02-02 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 02/03/2011 12:40 AM, Richard Mann wrote: On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Michael von Glasow mich...@vonglasow.com wrote: Hence, in most cases the extra node on the way is what I call courtesy tagging - it makes things easier for the renderer (less preprocessing) but can be automated. I

Re: [Talk-transit] NEW Proposed Feature

2011-01-28 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 27.01.2011 22:06, Michael von Glasow wrote: You can find the proposal at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Simplified_Public_Transport_Scheme Constructive feedback and suggestions are welcome and can be sent to the list or left on the proposal's discussion page. It

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism - a real example from Zürich

2011-01-26 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 26.01.2011 09:28, Michał Borsuk wrote: Here's an excerpt from the ZVV timetable for Bus 210, uptown Zürich In Zürich / ZVV there does NOT exist a bus 210. And the data come from this: http://www.zvv.ch/en/timetables/online-timetable.html This is a form. It is no data output. What did

Re: [Talk-transit] Public Transport Line Diagram

2011-01-26 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 26.01.2011 09:20, Michał Borsuk wrote: 1. Tram lines are normally represented by a single line on the map, not one line per track This is what you think is correct. Why don't you accept, that others want and do map more exact and more in detail then you? Teddych

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism - a real example from Zürich

2011-01-26 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 01/26/2011 08:40 PM, Michał Borsuk wrote: Line 10 Winterthur: line# relation# # of runs 10 407 6 10 408 1 10 409 1 10 410 6 10 411 3 10 412 3 10 413 6 10 414 3 10 415 3 10 416 1 10 417 6 10 418 3 10 419 1 10 420 3 10 702 2 10 703 2 Voila, one line, 16 relations (unless

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism - a real example from Zürich

2011-01-25 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 01/25/2011 12:01 AM, Michał Borsuk wrote: So far, so good. Let's then take a tram line, I selected a *random* stop in the centre of Zürich, and *randomly* took tram line 10. Here's the list of routes and their conditions: ... This single line contains *23* different routes! Twenty-three

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 01/22/2011 11:04 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote: IMHO not related to the proposal: - potlatch can not handle the proposal/nested relations correctly: The latest version of Potlatch (Potlatch 2) handles nested relations excellently. About 10 seconds' research

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 01/22/2011 08:38 PM, Michał Borsuk wrote: On 01/22/2011 09:32 AM, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote: - stop_area is not needed/too complicated: [...]And it does not seam to be too complicated, And as for not needed: can we have a *separate discussion* on how routing works? There had already

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 01/24/2011 10:10 AM, Michał Borsuk wrote: As far as I understand the issue, stop areas are used to tie different stops into one transferring area. No, you did not understand correct. stop_area_group is (was?) for that. Teddych ___ Talk-transit

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 01/24/2011 11:00 AM, Michał Borsuk wrote: Am 24.01.2011 10:39, schrieb Dominik Mahrer (Teddy): On 01/24/2011 10:10 AM, Michał Borsuk wrote: As far as I understand the issue, stop areas are used to tie different stops into one transferring area. No, you did not understand correct

Re: [Talk-transit] New proposal to store public transport data

2011-01-24 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 01/24/2011 07:24 PM, Michał Borsuk wrote: On 01/24/2011 03:04 PM, Oleksandr Vlasov wrote: 3. bus_stop already defines `ref' tag, will proposed `stop_id' be something different? ref= on a bus stop? That's news to me (sadly). I used stop_id=, but the mess probably comes from the fact that

[Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-22 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
I try to seperate the criticism from the spam around my proposal: - stop_area is not needed/too complicated: According to taginfo there are already 64'500 stop area relations in the OSM database (10'500 public transport/oxomoa, 1'500 stop place, 51'500 unified stoparea). For me this is a

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-28 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 12/29/2010 12:30 AM, Richard Mann wrote: If someone maps a single node on the way and calls it highway=bus_stop, then that should be OK (but not recommended). unified_stoparea recommends that. You would allow but not recommend it, correct? If someone then wants to put highway=bus_stop

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-17 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 12/13/2010 11:35 PM, Richard Mann wrote: Because sometimes trams just stop in the road, not at anything that might be described as a platform. The only thing you can see is a pole (looking remarkably like a bus stop, in fact). You could call them railway=platform nodes, but it doesn't sound

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-13 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 12/13/2010 11:52 AM, Jo wrote: I like the proposal, the only thing I don't like about it is the massive duplication of information in the route relations, which will make it harder to maintain them in the long run. But I see why we would do it that way. Maybe I'll come up with a proposal for

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-13 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 12/13/2010 01:12 PM, Richard Mann wrote: But this doesn't work well when you have lines that loop at the ends (fairly common with bus services), because the two relations overlap (you have to make certain nodes members in both relations, and that starts crossing a complexity/maintainability

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-13 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 12/13/2010 06:26 PM, Albin Michlmayr wrote: Till now I solved this by defining one stop in the loop as terminus. This lines then take different routes for each direction. Therefore I found the solution with single-direction route relations quite suitable. I don't know if this is the best

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-12 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 12/11/2010 03:32 PM, Michał Borsuk wrote: And by the way: What physical thing is represented by railway=tram_stop? I don't deal with trams. So you have a very limited view of Public Transport. Whenever I criticize Oxomoa I hear the same silly argument: but in my Siedlung there's a

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-10 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
Hi Richard There appears to be a degree of consensus on using one type=route relation per direction (though it's not entirely clear whether this is really necessary), not worrying overmuch about telescopic routes or occasional diversions, and (groaning but) creating separate relations for

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-10 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
Think of a terminal bus station somewhere in the center of a city. Four bus lines end here. One platform of 50m. The four lines stop always at the same position (line 1 is first,..., line 4 is last). Only one pole for all buses. Where do you place your tags? Or how do you tell where to wait

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-10 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 12/10/2010 08:55 PM, Richard Mann wrote: I would agree that on-highway highway=bus_stop should be phased out (is anyone saying they should be retained?). I think they're a hangover from the time before we realised that tagging the pole was a better approach. In the mean time, I don't think

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-10 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 12/11/2010 12:39 AM, Richard Mann wrote: The English-language discussion appears to have long reached a consensus (except for you). The decision to place highway=bus_stop beside the road has been made before highway=platform existed. Without highway=platform I also would vote for beside

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-09 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 09.12.2010 13:31, Michał Borsuk wrote: There is the issue of multiple relations per line in oxomoa, which in my opinion is a total misfit. There are roles in relations, and different variants of a route can be put there. Two, or more, relations per line is not only illegal (clearly against

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-09 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 12/10/2010 01:45 AM, Richard Mann wrote: highway=bus_stop on a node next to a road railway=tram_stop on a node on railway=tram railway=platform on a node or way or area next to the tram tracks This is how you are using it. It is inconsistent. It is incomplete. It is historic. Beside your

[Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-08 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
Hi, I want to invite everyone to comment the (in central europe) already widely used new Public Transport Schema: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport Teddych ___ Talk-transit mailing list

Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

2010-12-08 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
Hi Michael In the new proposal I am missing some details on how to build relations: 1. Should the outward and return trip be represented as two separate relations, as a single relation or is that up to the mapper? Each direction should be in a separate relation. This is written in the

Re: [Talk-transit] Public transport on the main OSM page

2010-11-23 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
Hello list http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Inspector provides a similar view (Public Transport Network) like ÖPVN-Karte. Teddych ___ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org