[Talk-transit] Public transport proposal

[Chris Hill]

After reading the complexity of the proposal for something as simple as 
a bus stop I thought I should stress something that I believe as 
important: Mappers are precious.

There has been some discussion on IRC about this proposal and these are 
few of the  comments:

/These proposal-twiddlers completely miss the point about how precious 
mappers are. I've checked about 2000 bus stops - I would have done about 
10 if I had to mangle a relation each time.

"highway=bus_stop beside the way causes extra preprocessing for routing 
software. "...... so?

"highway=bus_stop beside the way " = easy to map

well, any place the node is added is easy. let Intel and AMD worry about 
the rest

the thing about these "we must have neat structures for routing 
software" [people] is that _none_ of them have ever written any routing 
software/

There were no supportive comments. Please remember this is a mapping 
project, not an IT project. Ease of editing is the key to getting data 
and without data we are all sunk.

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Cheers, Chris
user: chillly