[Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism -> a real example from Zürich

[Michael von Glasow]

On 02/07/2011 11:11 PM, Richard Mann wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Michael von Glasow
> <michael at vonglasow.com>  wrote:
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/611446
>> Single-direction, the first stop (Bonola) is a platform member (no stop
>> member exists for this one); all others are stop members.
>>
>> Both directions rendered:
>> http://78.46.81.38/api/sketch-line?network=SITAM&ref=80&style=padua
> As far as I can tell the sketch-line ignores the
> highway=platform/role=platform ways. I think Bonola renders because
> it's a stop and a platform in the reverse direction relation:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/611538
Ouch... you're right, that's why I added the 
public_transport=stop_position with the stop role, sketch-line wouldn't 
render the platform alone. It's been quite a while since...

Here we're getting into one of the uglier parts of transport mapping - 
large terminals (amenity=bus_station) with multiple stop positions and 
platforms. I deliberately left that out of the proposal I presented (my 
plan is to present that as a later extension).

Michael