I must admit that I have never liked the use of such a large symbol (green bus) for bus stops on the mapnik layer. I would be inclined to use that for bus stations and design a smaller symbol for road-side bus stops (yet can think of no suitable symbol just now - except perhaps a small green loppypop). However, the disparity is usage shown by Jon's stats rather puts me off doing that just now. By usage bus station seems to be predominantly considered an an "amenity", and bus stops a "highway" feature.
Cheers STEVE Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Learning and Technical Support Unit Manager School of Health and Social Sciences Middlesex University phone/fax: 020 8411 5355 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdx.ac.uk/schools/hssc/staff/profiles/technical/chiltons.asp Chair of the Society of Cartographers: http://www.soc.org.uk/ SoC conference 2008: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cartographers08/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Burgess Sent: 06 April 2008 13:26 To: Steven te Brinke Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik: amenity=bus_station On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 13:38 +0200, Steven te Brinke wrote: > Hello, > > The current mapnik rules will render amenity=bus_stop, but the map > features define it as amenity=bus_station. > > Steven I seem to remember that the rendering for amenity=bus_stop was put in because it was in use prior to the approval of highway=bus_stop in Map_Features. It was never intended to be bus_station. We should probably render amenity=bus_station too but we should use a more significant icon and render them at lower zooms. The counts of the different 'bus*' values from the latest planet dump are below for reference... gis=> select amenity,count(amenity) as number from planet_osm_point where amenity like 'bus%' group by amenity order by number desc; amenity | number -----------------+-------- bus_station | 1051 bus_stop | 216 bus stop | 5 bus_depot | 3 bus_terminal | 2 busstop | 2 bus_parking | 2 bus station | 1 business_park | 1 business centre | 1 bus_stop? | 1 (11 rows) gis=> select highway,count(highway) as number from planet_osm_point where highway like 'bus%' group by highway order by number desc; highway | number ------------------+-------- bus_stop | 13532 bus_halt | 230 bus_station | 69 bus stop | 4 busstop | 4 bus_stop | 2 bus_sluice | 1 bus_stop:forward | 1 (8 rows) Jon _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
