[Tagging] iD adding highway=footway to all railway/public_transport=platform ways and relations
Tobias Zwick
osm at westnordost.de
Thu May 23 17:42:26 UTC 2019
I'd say so.
On 23/05/2019 19:03, Nick Bolten wrote:
> So would it be fair to say that a linear *=platform implies foot=yes and can be tagged with reasonable tags for a footway such as width, incline, surface, tactile paving, etc?
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2019, 9:46 AM Tobias Zwick <osm at westnordost.de <mailto:osm at westnordost.de>> wrote:
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> "Redundant" is perhaps not the best way to describe the problem. I'd go about this like this:
>
> A "highway=footway" is a footway, a "public_transport=platform" is a bus stop (platform). These are simply two different things. They *share* certain properties, for example, they are accessible both by pedestrians, but that does not make a bus stop platform a footway.
> Giving an extreme example: Paved brownfields and parking lots are not footways. But following the argument of the iD developers, they probably should.
>
> Tobias
>
> On 23/05/2019 18:26, Nick Bolten wrote:
> > I'm confused, because these two statements seem incompatible. If it's redundant, how can it also have a conflict like different address restrictions? I'd like to know how, as a data consumer, I should reliably interpret existing platforms without the tag added by iD.
> >
> > Taking a step back, can anyone name an instance where a linear transit platform is not a footway?
> >
> > On Thu, May 23, 2019, 12:49 AM Markus <selfishseahorse at gmail.com <mailto:selfishseahorse at gmail.com> <mailto:selfishseahorse at gmail.com <mailto:selfishseahorse at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >
> > I agree that adding highway=footway to platforms is not only
> > redundant, but (as pointed out by Michael) is bad because platforms
> > often have different access restrictions than highway=footway. iD's
> > validation rule should be removed.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Markus
> >
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