A functioning Public Transport plugin

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Sorry, I meant to say "what inherant flaws does PTV2 have".
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13 Nov 2020, 21:04 by josm-dev at openstreetmap.org:

> 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?
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> 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:
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>> 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 Since writing this plugin, the relation editor has superseded most of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
>>