> editors would have to take similar precautions with nodes.  Not impossible, 
> but it would take time to appear.  Your scheme will be more fragile than the 
> existing one, at least for a while.

Well yes, any change will take some work by the maintainers of editor
applications, so we should not make changes lightly.

But this should not prevent us from making a change which would make
things easier for mappers and might better represent reality.

Greater ease of mapping is a strong reason to consider changes to
editor applications.

- Joseph Eisenberg

On 3/8/20, Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Mar 2020 at 11:45, Guillaume Rischard <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On ride_and_hail: in my experience, those are unambiguously definable by
>> points such as intersections or POIs. Drivers connect the dots with the
>> only possible path. If it’s ambiguous, you tell the drivers they always
>> have to go via village x or pass poi y – in other words, you add a via
>> point.
>>
>
> You are using a different (and somewhat illogical) version of "hail and
> ride" here.
> On a hail and ride section of a route, the route is predetermined and fixed
> but the bus will stop to pick up anywhere along it, not just at official,
> marked
> stops.  You HAIL the bus with some sort of gesture, the bus stops, you get
> on
> AND RIDE.
>
> What you're describing is a route which has optional stops: when you board
> the bus you say you want to get off at X and the bus takes an optional
> detour to go past X; if there is nobody on the bus who wants to stop at X
> then the bus takes its normal route which does not pass X.  Anybody
> waiting at point X to hail the bus is going to be out of luck if there's
> nobody on the bus who wants to get off there.  This cannot be described
> as hail and ride because you could wait all day at X hoping to hail a bus
> that never appears.  It usually appears in timetables as "Stops at X
> by request" or some such.
>
>>
>> Some ride_and_hail routes are only like that on sections, and this is
>> where I’d particularly like to have your ideas. Have nodes with roles
>> ‘ride_and_hail:start’ and ‘ride_and_hail:stop’?
>>
>
> You'd have to have something like that.  Which means it's starting to get
> complicated.
>
> What worries me about this scheme is that nodes are more fragile than ways.
> Major editors recognize when ways are part of a route relation and stop you
> doing some of the common things that would break the relation.  For your
> scheme to be workable, editors would have to take similar precautions with
> nodes.  Not impossible, but it would take time to appear.  Your scheme will
> be more fragile than the existing one, at least for a while.
>
> --
> Paul
>

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