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

[Michał Borsuk]

Am 12.01.2011 15:50, schrieb ant:
> Hi,
>
>
> Ok, nobody is forced into a complicated tagging scheme. Anybody who is 
> uncomfortable with relations, advanced editors or whatever should just 
> put a node to each bus stop. That's fine. 
And that's what we're about to standarize.

> Another mapper will come and turn it into a stop area and update the 
> route relations.
Exactly. But this entire process needs a website, hence this discussion 
here.
> [...] People will develop standalone OSM routing applications for 
> public transport and won't accept any dependency on external websites...
No, they won't. It's too complicated, and too expensive to maintain. I 
can bet on it (sadly). Those who claim otherwise have not seen the real 
data, or they think that a bus starts from a terminus, ends at another 
terminus, and does it N times a day. It's not at all that easy. (Some 
people may want to simply copy Google Transit data, but again, Google 
Transit at present covers very small area.)


Greetngs,

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

Michał Borsuk