[OSM-talk] Mapnik: amenity=bus_station

[Jo]

Lester Caine schreef:
> graham wrote:
>   
>> Steve Hill wrote:
>>     
>>> How are people tagging bus stops?  I have been setting tagging nodes that 
>>> are members of the way, which means they are part of the road they are on. 
>>> Is this the right way to do it?  It seems right since it unambiguously 
>>> shows which road the stop is on, but it doesn't allow any indication as to 
>>> which side of the road the stop is on.
>>>       
>> I've been doing the opposite, and have only recently realised that your 
>> way is the way I was supposed to do it..
>>
>> I have mapped quite a few bus stops where the bus stop is on a 
>> pedestrian island and I want to show not only 'side of road' but also a 
>> fairly exact physical position. I'd be reluctant to give that up to 
>> plonk all my bus stops in the middle of the road...
>>
>> I wonder if anyone has done any counts of how many stops in the db are 
>> points in ways, and how many are points beside ways?
>>     
>
> I did think that was the counts Jon included in his earlier post?
> The 'highway' counts show 13532 bus stops, but yours must be in the 216 
> independent objects?
>
> The 'side' information has a number of areas that need covering other than 
> just bus stop or halt location. No right/left turn from other side of road for 
> example. And the problem of pedestrian routing showing things like safe 
> crossing points adds another level of complexity.
>
> p.s. adding all the pedestrian crossings and bus stops on the South Circular 
> in London along with all the no right turn alternate routes and information on 
> which lane you should be in would probably cover EVERY possible option. How do 
> people cope around there? Took me 2 hours to get from Croydon around to the M4 
> yesterday :( I'll use the M25 next time ;)
>   
When I tag a bus stop, I always use highway=bus_stop. I didn't know 
about the amenity=bus_stop. I put them next to the road though. So the 
count we would like to see is independent/loose highway=bus_stop and 
highway=bus_stop that are actually part of a highway.


Polyglot