[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bus stops

[Andy Robinson]

Since this information is already in the naptan tags why would we need to
add it again under some other, eg name, tag?

Cheers
Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthijs Melissen [mailto:info at matthijsmelissen.nl] 
Sent: 14 November 2013 01:41
To: talk-gb-westmidlands
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Bus stops

Hi Brian,

> Generally I don't think adding names to bus stops adds anything to the 
> map other than when it is an Interchange name- so they're the only ones I
name.
> Why? Generally because adding a name consisting of a street name where 
> the street name is already on the map I consider to be cartographic 
> clutter and totally redundant.  Common names also tend to duplicate 
> features that are already named on the map and so are not really 
> needed.  For transport applications the data is there to be used - no need
to add it in a name.

To be honest, I don't agree with you there. Tagging for the renderer (not
giving bus stops names because it would create a clutter) is usually seen as
a bad idea, and I believe that's the case here as well.

First, on the one hand the default rendering doesn't display bus stop names
anyway, so there it wouldn't become a clutter. On the other hand, the
Transport Map layer displays bus stops names on low zoom level, and street
names only on the highest levels, so there the bus stop names would be
useful to get an overview.

Also don't forget that we are not creating a map, we are creating a
geographical database. For example, you might want to ask your software for
the closest bus stop. It would be nice if you could then get the bus stop
name as an answer, for which the name tags are necessary. Or for example,
you might want to generate a list of all stops of a given bus route, for
which you also need the stop names.

Also, not all common names are named after features already on the map (some
are called 'middle' for example).

For now, I think the best scheme I can think of would be "StreetName,
CommonName". That would follow the name on the signs, except that we use a
comma where there is a line break on the shield.

-- Matthijs

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