<div dir="ltr">The thing is, as the area around Stockholm clearly shows, highway=bus_stop is indeed sufficient. If I were to remove all the public_transport=platform/bus=yes tags from the stops in Belgium, it's very likely that nobody would notice. If I were to remove highway=bus_stop, all of sudden it would seem that Belgium doesn't have bus stops anymore.<div><br></div><div>"Killing off" highway=bus_stop is what I have been trying to do (somewhat passively, or at least not very actively) for the past few years. Since about a year I came to the conclusion that forsaking public_transport tags would be more straightforward if we really want a simplification.</div><div><br></div><div>And double tagging everyting to please everyone is quite likely the easiest thing to keep doing, even though it's awkward every time when you have to explain a highway=bus_stop isn't actually a highway and a public_transport=platform isn't actually a platform in 90% of the bus stops involved.</div><div><br></div><div>This is probably what is going to happen, because the people who would like to abolish the public_transport tags will never agree with the people who want to abolish the highway=bus_stop tags.</div><div><br></div><div>Polyglot, le défaitiste</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 9:46 PM DC Viennablog <<a href="mailto:emergency99@outlook.com">emergency99@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Yes, one object would be nice, however, I think it should be versatile enough to be able to be a node, line or polygon.</div>
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So basically what public_transport=platform is.</div>
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I also don't mind it being called "platform", even if there is only a pole stuck in a field.</div>
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That would not make p_t:v2 mapping futile, but enable a simpler scheme. Also, we would not have the problem of having "bus_stop", "tram_stop", "train_stop" being different things.</div>
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The highway=bus_stop tag is a thing that locks the mode of transport in to much. That should be killed of, especially because a bus waiting area is pushing the "highway" tag a little bit (as are things like "highway=footway", but I don't want to fully open
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Those tags like hw=bus_stop or railway=station were thought up at a time, when those things (in OSM) were not seen as a group (public_transport) but as they are in reality pretty similar in use and form of amenity, I think it is suitable to go the way of unifying
it as much as possible under the p_t-umbrella.</div>
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Also, any tag that is duplicating p_t tags in the "railway"-key-area should possibly be looked at, but I think we would first need to simplify the p_t in order for any other keys to be fitted to that.</div>
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So how would people like the suggestion:</div>
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<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Keeping only public_transport=platform as a needed object, without hw=bus_stop</span></li><ul>
<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">(as it should also be used for trams, trains and any other mean of public_transport – thinking things like the "Emirates Air Line"
in London).</span></li></ul>
<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">In a route relation, also only have that platform (with role "stop") and the streets/rails.</span></li><ul>
<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">You would still need to make sure the first/last street of the relation ends on a node near the platform point/area!</span></li></ul>
<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Additional, purely convenient tags to say which mode of transport stops there (bus=yes, tram=yes...)</span><br>
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<div>That would only be a slight tweak, that would still make the mapping more straight forward, but also make it more dynamic in the usage-possibilities.</div>
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<div>Also, I think stop_area-relations should be rethought as grouping many stations that could be interchanged between together. Take the Hauptbahnhof in Vienna for example. The "Fernbusbahnhof", the regional bus terminal, the station "Hauptbahnhof" of 13A/69A,
the station "Hauptbahnhof Süd" of the 69A and possibly even "Gertrude-Fröhlich-Sandner-Straße" are all just situated at or near exits of the train station. So they are all part of that "station-area". So I think, the stop-area should be kept, but as a more
useful relation to sum up stop/station complexes. That is a much greater use for a relation than just telling within the database that one thing belongs to another that is right next to it...</div>
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<div>And if required, the deletion/retagging of stop_position/bus_stop/(tram_stop) nodes in areas where "platform"-nodes/ways exist could be done in a semi-mechanical edit.</div>
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<div>Then, maybe the renders would also hail this only available tag as something worth showing...</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I have been holding off to respond to this. Almost a decade ago I started asking for public_transport=platform combined with bus=yes to be rendered, so it would become possible to drop highway=bus_stop.
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<div>After all those years it has become obvious that there is no willingness to do so. So it makes sense to drop the public_transport tagging scheme instead as it clearly failed to deliver on its promise to streamline mapping of public transport.</div>
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<div>As far as I am concerned a few things are important:</div>
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<div>* 1 single object to represent a bus stop.</div>
<div>* This object should clearly show on which side of the way the stop is located.</div>
<div>* My preference is to have this mapped on a single node, which keeps representing the stop for its 'lifetime'.</div>
<div>* There is no problem to use highway=bus_stop for such a node.</div>
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<div>So far, so good.</div>
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<div>In Belgium, the cities of Antwerp and Ghent and all the villages along the coast have trams which are operated by the same operator as the buses. This means that it can happen that the pole next to where the passengers wait serves for both buses and trams.
The operator assigned a single reference number to these, so for me it's obvious that such tram stops go on those same nodes and by extension so do all the other tram stops.</div>
<div>Apparently though tram and other rail infrastructure does have nodes, but those nodes seem to be mapped as nodes on the railway itself and that's where things start to clash. Not really a big deal, unless you meet a mapper who insists those nodes should
be on the railway ways...</div>
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<div>By analogy I would also have nodes next to the railway for subway and maybe even for train, but I never actually got around to mapping train infrastructure, the 70000 bus and tram stops were enough to keep me busy.</div>
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> I never understood the whole railway=platform discussion.<br>
> IHMO hw=bus_stop, hw=platform and rw=platform should die, and all be <br>
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You fail to say why.<br>
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> I have updated entire public transport concessions with almost all <br>
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> something _new_, I didn't include highway=bus_stop and deleted the old <br>
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Please clarify what you mean by the "old one"<br>
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That isn't the only rendering<br>
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