I have not been able to follow the large number of posts on this group in recent weeks - but I can confirm that stopareas are an important part of NaPTAN data in the UK, and are an important aspect of the way that stops data are used in journey planning applications. It would be a pity if OSM decided they were not needed ... because they are needed by at least some USERS of the data. The definitions of stopareas need to be created by those who have a functional need for them - they are not arbitrary - but where they exist, then I suggest that OSM community should import them.
Roger -----Original Message----- From: Richard Mann [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 23 January 2011 22:38 To: Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) <[email protected]> wrote: > - stop_area is not needed/too complicated: > According to taginfo there are already 64'500 stop area relations in the OSM > database (10'500 public transport/oxomoa, 1'500 stop place, 51'500 unified > stoparea). I think you'll find that the bulk of what you ascribe to unified stoparea (which I take to mean type=site relations) are in fact the UK NaPTan import (and not due to "mappers"). 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
