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

[Vincent Pottier]

Le 11/01/2011 18:25, Michał Borsuk a écrit :
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> On 11 January 2011 18:06, Albin Michlmayr <almich at gmx.at 
> <mailto:almich at gmx.at>> wrote:
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>     Am Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:15:27 +0100
>     schrieb André Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de
>     <mailto:andre%2Bjoost at nurfuerspam.de>>:
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>     > Am 11.01.11 15:00, schrieb Michał Borsuk:
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>     > > Questions:
>     > > * What has been achieved by *three *relations that could have not
>     > > been achieved by roles? How faster and easier is managing
>     two/three
>     > > relations than managing a role on the route?
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>     > This role thing is much more complicated than different relations.
>     > Does forward mean the direction of the bus line, or that of the way
>     > element in OSM? *That* is what confuses new users.
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>     I totally agree! For me it was a very timeconsuming search when I
>     tried to figure out how to set the role of an element in the route. I
>     found contradicting wiki pages 
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> YES! that's the point, and that's been said before. Make the wiki 
> pages clear, call it "standard", and there you go.
When a new comer is mapping on JOSM, with a good interface, he has not 
his eyes in the wiki.
It is easier for him to manage a one way relation, and an other one way 
relation.
For those loving learning curves : the curve is less hard ! ;-)
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>     an when I found the Oxomoa scheme with
>     different relations for each direction I thought this is a quite
>     simple
>     solution for the confutision.
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> Again, how do you implement it in Potlatch?
It is an other matter. We don't map for the editors. And Potlatch 
evolves. JOSM did it.
> How about changing the route temporarily? How about Paris RER, which 
> has several trains with different destinations? Do we produce 12 
> relations for line X, which has 6 variants? Possible, but crazy.
OK, the new comer will do maintenance on potlatch for the French RER ?
They are people with more skill, and other tools for that.
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FrViPofm
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