On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 23:09, Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > In inclement weather, passengers may well be found waiting in > the transit shelter 8 metres to west, and the tram will stop for them > if they are waiting in the shelter. It might also stop if you are > waiting a little bit beyond the shelter > > In this case it sounds like the tram operators are allowed to stop in > several different places. > > I would pick the place where the tram normally stops: either at the > sign or the location of the shelter, depending on the standard > practice in the local area. Either way, tram riders will be directed > to the correct location by routing apps: an 8 meter difference is not > significant.
But why pick one and not the other? Only for the sake of having one point rather than two in a database? Especially in this case where they can be fairly reasonably described as "stop position" (the sign) and "waiting area" (the shelter). > > Berlin mapping of streetside tram stops like > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/389400777 > > I have not visited that location in person, and the aerial imagery is > not high enough resolution to see if there is a separate platform, so > it is hard for me to say. > > The "gold standard" is survey: visiting the stop in location (and > riding the tram perhaps) > > Do you know if the "platform" here is separate from the sidewalk in > some way? It should either be a different height, or a different > surface, or at least marked with a painted / thermoplastic line. > Otherwise the length of this "platform" way would be arbitrary: why > not include the whole block? In this particular case, there is not a platform that can be distinguished - it's a curbside stop. The length of the "platform" way appears to roughly match the length of the vehicles and thus the area where the vehicles can be boarded (all-door boarding is in effect). Berlin doesn't have many curbside stops but where they do exist, this seems to be the prevailing local tagging. --Jarek _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
