[Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

[Claudius Henrichs]

Am 22.01.2011 09:32, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy):
> I try to seperate the criticism from the spam around my proposal:
>
> - stop_area is not needed/too complicated:
> According to taginfo there are already 64'500 stop area relations in 
> the OSM database (10'500 public transport/oxomoa, 1'500 stop place, 
> 51'500 unified stoparea).
> For me this is a reasonable number and we can't say it is only a 
> minority of eccentric mappers. It is a widely used tagging schema, 
> badly with several flavors. And it does not seam to be too 
> complicated, otherwise it would not be that much.
Just one comment to this point: What you can't justify by statistics is 
the ten thousand of cases were users deliberately decided *not* to use a 
stop_area relation but simply created public_transport=stop_position and 
public_transport=platform nodes with the same name next to each other. 
So just like your comment for the route_master...

> - route_master is not needed:
> If all the information is tagged at the variants/directions it is not 
> really needed, this is correct. I thought it is clearly described in 
> the proposal that you can skip the route_master if you think it is not 
> needed.
...you should add to your proposal that you can leave away the stop_area 
relation for simply stop positions.

Otherwise I'm okay with your summary and the proposal.

Claudius