[Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

[Roger Slevin]

I have not been able to follow the large number of posts on this group in
recent weeks - but I can confirm that stopareas are an important part of
NaPTAN data in the UK, and are an important aspect of the way that stops
data are used in journey planning applications.  It would be a pity if OSM
decided they were not needed ... because they are needed by at least some
USERS of the data.   The definitions of stopareas need to be created by
those who have a functional need for them - they are not arbitrary - but
where they exist, then I suggest that OSM community should import them.

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Mann [mailto:richard.mann.westoxford at gmail.com] 
Sent: 23 January 2011 22:38
To: Public transport/transit/shared taxi related topics
Subject: Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) <teddy at teddy.ch>
wrote:
> - 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).

I think you'll find that the bulk of what you ascribe to unified
stoparea (which I take to mean type=site relations) are in fact the UK
NaPTan import (and not due to "mappers").

Richard

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