> highway=platform and/or railway=platform are needed, because >> public_transport=platform doesn't mean a platform, but a waiting area. >> And a waiting areas doesn't need to be a platform: some waiting areas >> are just poles or signs beside the road [1], others are located on the >> sidewalk [2]. Besides, there are platforms that aren't operated >> (anymore) and therefore aren't waiting areas, that is >> public_transport=platform's, anymore. >> > > Well this is an error. For mi public_transport=platform should be a real > platform. It has no sense to have an irreal tag. > In the stop_position tag you can assure this with platform=yes or > platform=no. >
When the "new" public_transport tag came along, I asked how should I tag the nodes beside the street that represent the bus stops? Regardless of whether a platform is present. And the answer was to use public_transport=platform. So no, this is not an error. For more than half a decade I have been trying to convince the people responsible for the rendering of the main map to render nodes with public_transport=platform + bus=yes like highway=bus_stop. It became clear by now that this will NEVER happen. Thus public_transport=platform / bus=yes to replace highway=bus_stop became unnecessary. I think I'm going to remove those 2 tags everywhere in Belgium, when I review those 70000 bus stops, this time with help of Mapillary images for the positioning. They became pointless. But until now, I was using them. I was also using highway=platform to indicate the real bus platforms and railway=platform for the tram stops. Either in combination with public_transport=platform, or not. What I was not doing is duplicating information on these platform ways, or on the occasional stop_position node I was adding. And they also don't go into the route relations. 1 object per stop in the route relations should be enough. I'm using the nodes that represent the bus stops / passenger waiting areas next to the highways for the purpose of representing the stops along the itineraries. Works great! And isn't overly complicated or needing a lot of unnecessary maintenance. We need the simplest way of doing things that works. When Uber starts flying, we'll tackle that problem then. No need for a future proof public_transport scheme for that purpose. Polyglot
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