[Tagging] Criticism of PTv2

Phake Nick c933103 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 00:10:16 UTC 2020


On 2020-03-11 Wed 06:03, Alan Mackie <aamackie at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 20:54, Phake Nick <c933103 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 2020-03-10 Tue 19:47, Dave F via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> > A platform is a platform, a perfectly flat bit of sidewalk isn't.
>>>
>>> +1
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>>> DaveF
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>> In the sense of bus, sidewalk could be a platform because they are raised
>> from the driving road surface. You can google "bus platform" and see many
>> example of the word being used in real world.
>>
>>>
> I'll buy into that for the ones with the special raised kerb that some
> buses can get more or less level to, and for specially constructed ones in
> bus stations, but not for an unmodified area. I suspect in many regions
> it's barely higher than the road camber and despite the difficulty for
> wheelchairs etc, wouldn't normally be seen as "raised" by your hypothetical
> "average person".
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> For me that Google search returns images that tend towards the "more
> heavily modified" end of the spectrum, but who knows what sort of
> personalisation they're running.
>
> -Alan
>

I don't think a term must be familiar by general public to be used in OSM,
people who know what it is understand the meaning of the term should
already be sufficient.

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