Odd, this, as I can immediately think of the opposite use case: several marked bus stops, but the buses stop at random positions over about 100m of road depending on how many other buses are present. Individual buses serving the same routes will stop in completely different places (sometimes two or more buses serving the same route will be present at the stop).
Please stop referring to the current widespread practice of highway=bus_stop mapped at the pole as 'old': in doing so you are instantly raising the hackles of those who have spent time on the ground mapping, rather than writing proposals on the wiki. For all I know the various discussions and proposals may have some value, but I find the initial tone off-putting, lacking respect and overly confrontational. It is not a good route (;-)) to building consensus. By far and away the best approach is to map a specific area, and show how it really adds value to the map and to a range of data consumers (not just a pet public transport router). If it really is better than what exists you'll get people using it: telling people they're stupid, which is the basic tone of many messages to this list and discussions on the wiki is less likely to be successful. ________________________________ From: Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) <[email protected]> To: Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 10 December, 2010 15:31:50 Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport 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? It is up to you to use a new schema, or not if you dislike. I usually do not map already mapped routes/stations again, so I do not have to drop an original node. But when I map a new station I map stop position AND platform. On 10.12.2010 14:51, Richard Mann wrote: > Dominik/Teddy > > Please could you explain what situation do highway=bus_stop / > highway=platform / railway=platform not cover already, that requires > public_transport=platform to be added to the list? If you're not > intending to deprecate, then you're just adding complexity. 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? I do not plan to replace existing tags with highway/railway=public_transport, but I will tag unmapped platforms with public_transport=platform. If so this can be done with a bot. 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. > Also I think you need to make a clearer case for > public_transport=stopping_position. You claim it's needed for routing > - but routers currently seem to manage without. > > The existing tags can cover the simpler situations (starting with a > single node, then two or three nodes, then the two nodes become > platform ways/areas), and still used for the more-complicated > situations (>2 platforms / bus_stops), just grouped into a relation > (and at which point you might well drop the original single node). > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
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