On 22 June 2018 at 11:01, Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > If I'm right, the only downsides are that I have to map two distinct > objects (platform and > stop position) and I have to repeat information (the name of the stop, at > least) for both. > > I have found that the downside is not so much in the initial mapping as in the subsequent maintenance. Mapping two distinct objects from scratch is tedious but do-able, especially if done by one mapper who takes a consistent approach. But at least in my city, urban bus routes and their stops change a lot and thus require a lot more maintenance than trams and railways (without even getting into repairing relations that get broken by other mappers working on something other than public transport). If the stop moves and another mapper decides to update the map, you have to hope they realise that the position and maybe the name and reference tags need to be changed for 2 objects (or maybe 3 if there is a stop_area relation), as well as updating the route relation itself.
Another downside, and apologies for going on about this but I haven't seen a clear answer, is that you have to decide whether to add "bus=yes" to the platform node (and indeed highway=bus_stop if you want to give it a good chance of being generally rendered), and again hope that other mappers agree with your approach.
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