[Talk-transit] Question regarding public_transport=stop_position

[Christopher Parker]

Lack of consensus means to tread carefully when deleting other people's 
work, in my opinion.  (I'm not talking about corrections, mind you).


On 4/2/2020 9:50 PM, Jarek Piórkowski wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 20:19, Jack Armstrong<jacknstacy at sprynet.com>  wrote:
>> The wiki for public_transport=stop_position states, “If the stop on the public transport route has a defined platform, there is no benefit in adding public_transport=stop_position. In these cases, do not use public_transport=stop_position to avoid duplication of information and confusion.” You can see the wiki page here:https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:public_transport%3Dstop_position
>>
>> The conversations on the wiki discussion page seem to agree that stop_position is not needed where a defined platform exists.
>>
>> I’m mapping railway and light-rail in a metropolitan area. Following the above wiki statement, I have removed stop positions where “defined platforms” are located. My goal is to follow the wiki, to…the…letter. Honestly, I don’t have a preference as to which manner railways are mapped.
> A thing with a wiki is that it can be edited by anyone... the
> statement you've quoted was added in November 2019
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Apublic_transport%3Dstop_position&type=revision&diff=1922774&oldid=1805518
> and is not part of the original voted-upon PTv2 proposal.
>
> Unfortunately by now the various wiki and talk pages are a hash of
> people declaring what's "necessary" and what's "confusing".
> Traditionally, deciding on how to create tagging systems was done via
> new tagging proposals were for, but unfortunately not everyone
> respects this voted-upon scheme.
>
>> Again, my only goal is map correctly,
> To put it bluntly, the OpenStreetMap community does not currently have
> a consensus on how to map "correctly". Sorry.
>
> --Jarek
>
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