[Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

[Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)]

On 01/24/2011 11:00 AM, Michał Borsuk wrote:
> Am 24.01.2011 10:39, schrieb Dominik Mahrer (Teddy):
>> On 01/24/2011 10:10 AM, Michał Borsuk wrote:
>>> As far as I understand the issue, stop areas are used to tie different
>>> stops into one "transferring area".
>>
>> No, you did not understand correct. stop_area_group is (was?) for that.

By the way, I have removed stop_area_group from the proposal.

> Then what is the exact difference between public_transport=stop_area and
> amenity=bus_station (or equivalent for other vehicle types)?

public_transport=station is an area usually dedicated to public 
transport (in contrary a simple platform or pole can be part of a/placed 
on a sidewalk and the bus can stop on the street without bus bay and is 
therefore shared with other infrastructure). A station can be a building 
or an area (similar to landuse) and has an exact geographic position.

public_transport=stop_area contains all the attributes that are shared 
by all the primitives (reference, operator, network, ...). All this 
information has nothing to do with the geographic positioning. It is to 
reduce redundancy. If you prefer put the attributes to all the 
primitives and leave away the stop area.

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