On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) <[email protected]> wrote: > Think of a terminal bus station somewhere in the center of a city. Four bus > lines end here. One platform of 50m. The four lines stop always at the same > position (line 1 is first,..., line 4 is last). Only one pole for all buses. > Where do you place your tags? Or how do you tell where to wait for bus > number 4? At the pole that is 40m away from the stop position? >
That'd be four bus stops in the NaPTAN system, the three "invisible" ones being what they call customary stops (these are far more common in rural areas). I wouldn't recommend the passengers go to the stopping position (not unless I wanted them to be run over). > highway=platform is for buses/nonrail > railway=platform is for train/tam/rail > What should be used if there are buses and trams at the same station? Whichever feels right. I'd probably use highway=platform if you can walk across the tracks at the platform, railway=platform if you can't. Does it matter? > highway=bus_stop is used different. Sometimes as stop position, more often > as platform/pole. See > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:highway%3Dbus_stop#Results_2010-10-27 > The meaning of how highway=bus_stop should be used differ. It can not be > replaced easily with a new public_transport tag. I would agree that on-highway highway=bus_stop should be phased out (is anyone saying they should be retained?). I think they're a hangover from the time before we realised that tagging the pole was a better approach. In the mean time, I don't think it causes any major problem (it just isn't as clear as tagging the pole). Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
