[Tagging] iD adding highway=footway to all railway/public_transport=platform ways and relations

[Nick Bolten]

That segment of platform by the bus shelter is both a footway and a
platform. In many scenarios, the "platform" might be distinguished by
nothing but some paint on a curb - clearly it's just a part of the sidewalk
where a bus stops.

We shouldn't ask mappers to decide how platform-ie or footway-ie that
segment of infrastructure is and only choose one based on subjective
priorities: they should be able to clearly describe both simultaneously.

highway=platform effectively rules out highway=footway, hence the conflict.

I have never seen *=platform features consumed for any purpose other than
being a destination in routing software. Does anyone have examples of other
use cases?

On Thu, May 23, 2019, 10:50 AM Allroads <allroadsworld at gmail.com> wrote:

> For me it is highway=platform, ID, is doing it wrong.
>
> In a discussion, I drawn out a visualisation.
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> https://i.postimg.cc/wxJcG6bH/bushaltehaltekominvulling1.png
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> Allroads.
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