the Tag:railway=stop, has some of the same issues.
>Saturday, July 18, 2020 12:27 PM -05:00 from Jarek Piórkowski ><ja...@piorkowski.ca>: > >On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 at 13:17, Daniel Capilla < dcapil...@gmail.com > wrote: >> When we started mapping the bus routes in Málaga, Alan Grant and I came >> to the conclusion that it was not necessary to add "stop_area" relations >> due to the type of bus stops in Málaga, [2] where there are no actual >> stop areas (only a stop position in the own road and a pole on the >> sidewalk usually). >> >> Is that solution correct? Should we add "stop_area" relations at every >> bus stop position? I would have to create a lot of additional relations, >> only with the stop position and the platform features. I am not sure if >> that would be reasonable/useful for any purpose. What do you think? >> >> [2] >> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ES_talk:Rutas_de_bus_en_M%C3%A1laga#Uso_de_la_relaci.C3.B3n_.22stop_area.22 >> (in Spanish) >stop_area does not seem necessary for support in many popular OSM >transit data consumers (OsmAnd and öpnvkarte/openbusmap come to mind). >You probably don't have to add them unless something is really unclear >without it. In particular it doesn't seem very necessary for simple >cases like 2 stops on either side of the road. (It won't hurt, but >it's not necessary.) > >Reading through (autotranslated) wiki discussion, it does make some >sense that stop_area is more useful in areas where a number of >physical halt points share one ref ID. If that's not the case for you, >probably don't need to bother. > >--Jarek > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-transit mailing list >Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
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