[OSM-newbies] How do you map elements of an amenity_bus_station?

[Dave F.]

  Hi Michał

There are two mailing lists that may be able to help you specifically: 
Talk-transit, which deal with public transport; and Tagging that deals 
with, err... tagging.

Here's a list of all the current forums:

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Cheers
Dave F.


On 10/08/2010 10:40, Michał Borsuk wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I mostly deal with public transport, and I have an issue which I can't 
> find in wiki, so I hope to have answers from users of bigger 
> experience than mine.
>
> For termini, as well as for larger transfer points it makes sense to 
> use amenity=bus_station in place of highway=bus_stop.
>
> Now the problem is what the elements ("bus stops" in real life) of the 
> amenity should be? I see three choices in use:
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> * highway=bus_stop seems to be the users' choice, but on some maps, 
> namely Osm2Gps (Java offline map for telephones), there is a clutter 
> of names, one for the amenity, one for each stop
>
> * highway=platform doesn't clutter, but then the actual location 
> doesn't show up on mapnik
>
> * highway=bus_stop, but without a name, just platform code. Seems the 
> most sensible solution, but is it compatible with what others are doing?
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