[Tagging] Was public_transport=platform intended to always be combined with highway=bus_stop?
Markus
selfishseahorse at gmail.com
Sun Aug 4 16:59:00 UTC 2019
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 16:40, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
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> it is just an excuse to insist on using pt=platform for things that aren’t platforms and justify it with saying it means waiting area.
To quote the PTv2 proposal page: "The platform is the place where
passengers are waiting for the vehicles. ... If there is no platform
in the real world, one can place a [node] at the pole [...]." [1]
[1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/Public_Transport&oldid=625726
Thus the tag says nothing about the existence of a raised structure.
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