On 11/03/2020 12:07, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
I notice that they also refer to adding bus=yes etc to platforms
representing bus stops, which was not part of the PTv2 proposal, but I guess
tries to deal with one of the issues that led people to prefer
highway=bus_stop.
Yes, that is a rather silly thing that has been added, since it was
noticed after the proposal that if you removed highway=bus_stop and
only had public_transport=platform, then you would have no way to know
it was a bus stop rather than a train platform.
So now some mappers advocate adding a second tag bus=yes, originally
only proposed for stop positions. But if the originally, more common
tag highway=bus_stop is already used, there is no need to add bus=yes.
This shows, once again, how PTv2 just induces confusion & so leads to
errors in the OSM database.
PTv2 was, naively, designed as a replacement for existing transit tags.
They were not designed to be used in conjunction with each other. so
Joseph's last sentence is irrelevant & incorrect.
PTv2 was a cock-up & needs to be rescinded.
DaveF
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