The thing is, when PTv2 was voted, I asked what to do with the bus stop nodes next to the way. The answer was put public_transport=platform on those NODES. In fact they rather represent a pole with a flag on it. But for some bus stops, there is nothing physical present. The bus stops there and both passengers and the drivers know it.
Those are the nodes that get public_transport=platform, without an actual platform being present. Now if there is a physical platform, we draw a way or an area and tag it highway=platform or railway=platform. Those can also get a public_transport=platform tag. But it doesn't really matter, highway=platform or railway=platform has all the information we need for those. In case it's heightened, we can add wheelchair yes, if there is tactile paving, we can add tactile_paving=yes, although I think it would be even better if we could add explicit ways and nodes for those, as we map in more and more detail. What I am trying to accomplish is that bus and tram stops would be represented by a single node, next to the highway. That those nodes get all the tags describing the bus or tram stop and that only those nodes get added to the route relations. Some people say, but you should be able to 'upgrade' from a node to a way or an area. I say: let's go for stability in the data and keep it all contained in that single node per bus/tram stop. It's easy to work with for both data consumers and mappers. What this does imply is that stop_area relations should bundle the smallest group of objects that belong together (for one side of the street at a time or for one platform in a bus station). At present the wiki seems to say to throw everything in there together for a group of bus stops that happen to have the same name. But that, we can do just as well with a spatial query on the data. So no, adding public_transport=platform does not mean there is a physical platform, just like highway=bus_stop doesn't mean it's part of the highway, unfortunately both tags are slightly off. but we shouldn't get too fixated on the meaning of those words in English, but rather what has become the convention in OSM for them). Polyglot Op vr 22 jun. 2018 om 01:27 schreef Yves <yve...@gmail.com>: > Why adding 'platform' where there's no physical platform? > Yves_______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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