When I look at how PT is mapped according to what they consider to be v2 of the public transport scheme, I notice a few problems.
The first is that details about the stops is sometimes mapped on the stop_position node, sometimes on the platform, which can be a way or a node. As far as I'm concerned a platform (way), a shelter, a bench, a waste basket are all attributes of a stop. At some point the wiki said to map the pole as platform, so I went ahead and did that. Each and every pole is now mapped on a node next to the way: highway=bus_stop (for rendering, tried to lose it, won't ever render) public_transport=platform bus=yes name ref operator network Now I find that public_transport=stop_position is getting highway=bus_stop. Where I'm mapping PT, not all stop_positions are present (yet). Adding 65000 bus stops on nodes next to the way, was enough work without trying to make it twice as hard to accomplish. In retrospect public_transport=platform was a misnomer. Maybe we should have used public_transport=pole. Anyway, the attempt to clear up the distinction between mapping stops next to the road and as a node on the road has failed utterly, now all seems to be done twice, which is a total waste of time. My problem is that when I'm adding stops as nodes in Germany and put the details on there, those nodes get cleared/removed. I can reinstate them, but it won't stick, so it's futile to do so. At some point I thought that starting to include the platform ways to the background database would help, but that's not the case if the details are mapped on the stop_position nodes. The stop_area relations combine both directions, That's useless. I don't know who abolished stop_area_group, But what good are these stop_area relations if they don't help to relate an individual platform with a stop_position? Polyglot
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