[Talk-transit] Line diagrams

Steffen dido_698 at web.de
Tue Aug 31 17:05:05 BST 2010


--- Original Nachricht ---
Absender: Michał Borsuk
Datum: 31.08.2010 10:40
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>
> On 31 August 2010 10:05, Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk
> <mailto:ed at loach.me.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Looks to me like the platform is where the passengers
>     wait (at the “bus stop”) and the “stop” role is where
>     the bus physically stops on the way.
>
>
>  From
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dbus_stop :
>
> "The most widely accepted approach is to place bus stops
> nodes off *to one side of the highway way*, so /not/ with
> node being part of the way. "

Your right. For me it has more usability to know "Where can 
I enter the bus" then to know "Where stops the bus on the 
street".
>
> Sorry, but to me it looks like yet another "fun" thing to
> complicate the matter more than necessary. I use "platform"
> only where there is a terminus-like structure, that is where
> there is more than one bus stop.

Question: Can you take a picture. One for you map an node. 
And an other one for you map an "platform". Thanks.

Steffen



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