On 01/24/2011 11:22 AM, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote:
By the way, I have removed stop_area_group from the proposal.
In essence this is good. I tried to implement this concept in OSM, but
could not find (come up with) a sensible standard.
Then what is the exact difference between public_transport=stop_area and
amenity=bus_station (or equivalent for other vehicle types)?
public_transport=station is an area usually dedicated to public
transport [...]
public_transport=stop_area contains all the attributes that are shared
by all the primitives (reference, operator, network, ...).
I do see this advantage here, but again, this is something demanding for
humans that is not required by routing software. And frankly I do not
see such an improvement in data consistency over amenity=bus_station (or
equivalents for other vehicles). Rather I'd see questions to which is
which.
Smaller stop areas could be left as poles/platforms, larger ones
naturally constitute a type structure.
Perhaps the name "bus station" does not have to be applied to 4
platforms on the side of a Stadtbahn stop, but that's intuitive to users
(if not, we can hint them).
Greetings,
LMB
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