On Sunday, 19 July 2020 01:26:09 HKT Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > 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.
I think stop area is useful to group various "poles" (stands) which belongs to the same stop. The accepted practice in my region is that each pole is represented by a separate highway=bus_stop. For example, if there are two poles, there will be two highway=bus_stop nodes even they are only 1 m apart. They will have different route_ref= and may even have different names (if they are really named differently). Michael -- Sent from KMail
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