A functioning Public Transport plugin

[ipswichmapper at tutanota.com]

Great! This should hopefully simplify the improvement of this addon.

1. What inherant flaws did the sudtem have?
2. How easy is it to determine if a way is "forward" or "backward" automatically?

Also, it seems that the relation editor can sort ways, so a rewrite of this addon can remove this feature.
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13 Nov 2020, 20:53 by roland.olbricht at gmx.de:

> Hi all,
>
> thank you for the feedback.
>
>> Furthermore, this plugin is closed-source (as far as I know), so it cannot be "fixed".
>>
>
> The plugin is open source, see
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/josm-plugins/tree/master/public_transport
>
> The problem is that maintaining the plugin is a lot of work. I abandoned
> the development long ago because public transport v2 would have meant
> too much work, because the scheme has inherent flaws. Any such flaw does
> fall on the developer multiple times, for implementation, for developing
> test cases for all the undefined corner cases, for a UI that explains
> what the software actually does.
>
> By contrast, updating to a single different set of tags for stop poles
> is not a substantial problem.
>
>> This would mean you could immediately add all the stops in the click of a button, and sort broken relations in a click of a button.
>>
>
> Since writing this plugin, the relation editor has superseded most of
> the way sorting features. Thus, it no longer makes sense to duplicate
> the sorting capabilities in a distinct plugin.
>
> I would nowadays add buttons to the relation editor rather than a
> separate relation editor.
>
> There is also an unfinished routing algorithm in the plugin. I never had
> found a reasonable UI to exhibit that to the end user.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Roland
>