[Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - RFC - Public Transport

[Richard Mann]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) <teddy at teddy.ch> wrote:
> On 12/29/2010 12:30 AM, Richard Mann wrote:
>>
>> If someone maps a single node on the way and calls it
>> highway=bus_stop, then that should be OK (but not recommended).
>
> unified_stoparea recommends that. You would allow but not recommend it,
> correct?

Correct. We will have to live with these, but it's better that the use
of bus_stop should homogenise to the dominant use.

>
>> If someone then wants to put highway=bus_stop nodes on either side,
>> that should be seen as the more correct tagging. The original node
>> should be stripped of it's highway=bus_stop tag, or changed to
>> something meaningless like highway=bus_stop_group_centroid or
>> highway=bus_stop_position (if it genuinely is a stopping position,
>> rather than a group centroid).
>
> What about changing it to platform, if it is really the platform/pole?
>

We will have to live with people doing this, but it's better that the
use of bus_stop should homogenise to the dominant use.

Richard