[Tagging] rail routes: how are platforms and stops associated (rail question 2)

Bjoern Hassler bjohas+mw at gmail.com
Wed May 10 17:42:04 UTC 2017


>
> But yes - what do you do if a rain route goes through a station, where the
> rails temporarily split into several tracks? Where is the stop position for
> that route? Clearly in that case stop_positions on the route cannot be
> associated with platforms in the station, and full routing is not possible.
>

However, I would say that each platform should still have a stop_position
(on the rails) - even though those stop_positions might not be in route
relations...

Bjoern


> On 2017-05-10 18:59, Bjoern Hassler wrote:
>>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> In an  osm:relation:route
>> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/relation:route> (type=route,
>> route=train/...), you have both platforms and stop positions. How is a
>> particular platform associated with a stop that serves it?
>>
>> E.g. for public transport routing, you'd walk (highway=footway) to a
>> platform (public_transport=platform), at which point you'd change to a
>> train stopping at a stop (public_transport=stop_position). How would the
>> routing algorithm know that the platform is associated with the stop?
>>
>> Is there an existing mechanism or convention, e.g. a tag on the platform
>> that indicates the stop, or both tagged with the same name or similar?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Bjoern
>>
>> PS I've noticed that sometimes the stop position is at the far end of a
>> platform (i.e. the two stop positions are at opposite ends of the station).
>> Maybe that's so that an association can be made?
>>
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