[Talk-transit] Proposed Feature - 2nd RFC - Public Transport

[Michał Borsuk]

On 11 January 2011 18:59, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) <teddy at teddy.ch> wrote:

>
> I began searching for alternatives and found Oxomoa, unified stoparea, stop
> place and others. All are created because the current schema is not able to
> represent all eventualities.


It doesn't have to. It is an S-function, reaching 100% costs much more than
reaching 99%.


> And many bus routes have their specialities.
>
> As a newbie-public-transport-mapper I did not know which flavor of schema I
> should use to map my special bus route.



You are the third person to say it today. We simply need a good website
telling people how to do it.


> The jungle of possible schema is already densely wooded. But none of the
> schema has an approved status.


OMG, there is no DIN sticker on it? The world has come to an end.


> So everyone uses another schema. In my eyes the absolutely worsted case.
>

Melchior Moos of ÖPNVkarte.de managed to create a useful map out of this
"mess", so this is not such a mess after all. Surely we do need a standard
schema, but oxomoa is IMHO not the right model to base on. If it were, it
would have become a de facto standard already. Clearly it isn't good enough
to become such a thing.

I accepted a lot of criticism and added, changed and extended a lot.


IMHO it has to be simple and scalable first of all. Scalable in this case
would mean that an _average_ Joe can learn some parts of it and start
mapping, then he can learn more (e.g. termini, large transfer stations), and
proceed from simple to complicated.


I am open to change my proposal. I am also open to approve a completely
> different schema. Michał, please feel free to tell me what to change to
> improve the proposal. To say this proposal has a "bad learning curve" may be
> correct, but it does not help further.
>

In another topic.

>
> Teddych




-- 
Best regards, mit freundlichen Grüssen, meilleurs sentiments, Pozdrowienia,

Michał Borsuk
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