On 01/24/2011 12:40 PM, Christian wrote:
On 23.01.2011 13:18, Michał Borsuk wrote:
No, this can't be done in such detail, but it's not necessary as of 2011. All you need to know is where is the bus stop for the direction you're interested in, or whether the bus stop you found serves you correctly. All the rest is done by the routing software.
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I'm sorry, but saying it is not necessary seems very arrogant to me. Maybe it is not necessary for what you want to use OSM for, but that doesn't mean that we can't use it for something else. Last time I checked, OSM was open and everybody was able to map whatever they wanted.
Not at all. Nowhere it is written that anarchy is encouraged. If it were, I would have already applied what *I* think is proper, instead of finding a common solution.
If disagree then please attack my arguments with counter-arguments. I stand by what I wrote.
Thinking about the 100+ messages about this topic, this might actually be the reason for the problems in finding a good proposal. You have an idea of what you want to do with the data and you think that everybody else wants to do the same stuff. That's not the case!
I am aware of this. Sometimes the minority is correct.
People will want to use the data in different ways and that is fine, so what we need is a public transport proposal that allows everybody to map whatever they want to map. That includes people like you who only want the bus stops, but it also includes people like Vincent or me who would like to map also physical path a bus takes on the street.
My proposal does cover that. A simple bus line will be mapped as it was before, with the minor exception that the route will not contain the direction (you don't need that as a user) - but the stops will.
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