Hello,
This is a question that actually arose out of a "how to tag" argument
that's come to the attention of the DWG in the USA, but it's actually
easy to describe in terms of data in the UK that I'm familiar with, so
I'll do that.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/12004813 is a
"public_transport=stop_position" for a local station and is part of
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6396491 among other relations.
The problem is that train lengths vary, and there are a number of stop
positions, each of which are actually signed on the platform for the
benefit of the drivers. From memory I think that there's at least a
2-car stop, a 4 car stop and 6/8 and 10/12 car stops. The problem is
that the current node doesn't correspond to any of them.
As I asked on the changeset that added the one above
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/40603523 , how should these be
mapped and how should the PTv2 relations be set up for the different
services that use them, given that different train services will use
different stop locations here depending on train length? Should each
stop position be mapped and should there therefore be different copies
of each relation for all the possible train lengths? Should a "pretend"
average stop position be added which is actually never correct but will
at least look nice to data consumers that use PTv2 data? Given that we
don't know the actual stop position perhaps the railway=station object
(in this case https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7154300845 ) should be
used instead?
Maybe the public_transport=stop position should be omitted entirely?
This last option seems extreme, but one reading of
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:public_transport%3Dstop_position
where it says "However, marking the stop position adds no information
whatsoever when it is placed on the road at the point closest to
highway=bus_stop or on the tram tracks closest to railway=tram_stop. In
that case it can be abandoned. " might actually support that (and that
seems to be the view of one side of the argument in the USA).
Maybe the "correct" answer is none of the above? With a "local mapper"
hat on I've managed to avoid PTv2 since it basically isn't relevant
anywhere I normally map things, largely because I don't tend to do that
near any actual public transport infrastructure, but with a DWG hat on I
haven't been able to avoid the question, hence me asking here.
Best Regards,
Andy
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