[Talk-GB] NOVAM viewer

Christoph Boehme christoph at b3e.net
Tue Sep 15 08:46:29 BST 2009


Peter Miller wrote:
> 
> On 15 Sep 2009, at 08:27, Brian Prangle wrote:
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>> Hi everyone
>>
>> Shelter = yes/no I think is essential to leave in as a requirement as 
>> to whether a bus stop is completley surveyed or not. For two reasons: 
>> indication of a shelter is a representation of what's present on the 
>> ground and it's a pretty siginificant presence ( after all we tag and 
>> map smaller things like post boxes and park benches!); and it's also 
>> useful for bus passengers to know whether they're going to get wet or 
>> not when waiting for a bus ( for when we can eventually actually 
>> render this on maps)
> 
> So we can have bench=yes;bin=yes;lamp_post=yes on the same node if there 
> are these other items attached to it.
> 
> Personally I would prefer bus_stop=shelter/pole/customary/etc/etc to 

I really like this idea. It would also allow us to get rid of 
physically_present=yes/no.

Christoph

> shelter=yes/no as it allows much greater richness and gives us a place 
> to identify as stop as customary easily. It also fits with the pattern 
> 'key=x' and the 'x=....' with more details of the feature
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> Regards,
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> Peter
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