[OSM-talk] Bus Stops

[Lester Caine]

Ben Laenen wrote:
> On Thursday 24 April 2008, Lester Caine wrote:
>> It is the same problem where the tram way and the road share the same
>> way, but isn't it more normal to find that there is a way for the
>> tram track in the same way as the separate carriage ways of a two
>> carriage way road?
> 
> I've certainly been tagging two tram tracks as one way (it's also the 
> Belgian consensus to tag two railway tracks next to each other as one 
> way). It makes more sense if the tracks are next to each other to tag 
> them as one way, and you can then make use of the same nodes as the way 
> from the highway it's on for the tram way, and especially when the 
> underlying highway is single carriage.

It depends how fine a level of detail people want at the end of the day, the 
micro-mapping camp will need to work out how to pull a single way apart to 
display two tracks and the associated roadway. An on-going discussion I know, 
but simple changes to the way things are mapped now may make life easier in 
the future. Converting a roadway to provide two separated ways indicating the 
footpaths on either side and then showing where footpaths are not available 
makes a lot of sense when also linked to the actual cycleways and other detail 
at a micro level. Once the step is taken to indicate either side of a road, 
adding simple things like bus stop in the right place is easy?

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