[Talk-GB] Importing NaPTAN Data

[Mateusz Konieczny]

4 lip 2019, 19:28 od talk-gb at openstreetmap.org:

> On 04/07/2019 16:39, Martin Wynne wrote:
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>> On 04/07/2019 16:11, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
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>>> In OSM we map *physical* objects only.
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>> In rural areas there are many places where buses are timetabled to stop but where there is nothing physical -- no signpost or shelter.
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> These are still 'physical' in the sense that they exist in the timetable & Naptan documents. (Think also boundaries which don't have dashed lines painted across fields)
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In that sense everything is physical,
boundaries also have paper records
and there are some markers.
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>> The wiki for highway says "Can be mapped more rigorously using public_transport=stop_position for the position where the vehicle stops and public_transport=platform for the place where passengers wait.
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> It's disappointing to see, once again, the PT schema developers hi-jacking wiki pages to enforce their schema. The comments column is meant to describe how to use the tag not promote alternatives. This needs changing.
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Yeah, there is nothing more rigorous
in extremely verbose PTv2 tagging.
> highway=bus_stop is perfectly adequate to locate the place where people wait for a bus. 'platform' is redundant
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> PTv2 is a complete mess. it needs rescinding.
>
I completely agree here.
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