[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:
> 
>     "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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