[OSM-talk] public_transport=platform not rendered

[Jo]

The discussion/argument needs to be had anyway, so that is not a bad thing.

I also liked that public transport is in its own namespace now. To keep
things simple it's probably a good thing that we don't have a separate
public_transport=pole or public_transport=flag.

I don't mark all the stop positions. To me they are less important, than
were the stop is. To keep things managable and verifyable, I also don't tag
where the pole is, but rather where the letter B from the  word B U S is
written, which can be verified easily from the aerial pictures. Failing
that I use one corner of the shelter (where the flag usually sits anyway).

Many of our bus and trams stops are shared between trams and buses anyway,
so it doesn't make a lot of sense to distinguish between them. And when
there is a dedicated platform next to a tramrail, it's obvious it's a tram
stop.

If we ever get to the point where routes can be composed of subroutes
(which are shared among several routes, reducing the number of route
relations a highway needs to be a member of), that's when
public_transport=stop_position will become interesting, but then I'll also
start splitting the highways/railways at those points...

Polyglot


2012/11/17 Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk>

> > I'd rather deprecate platform for busses if anything.
>
> One of the problems with the bus stop tag, and hoping I don't reopen
> old arguments, is that due to a mistranslation in the wiki in the
> dim and distant past many people have tagged bus stops as nodes on
> the way where the bus stops, when they are meant to be nodes beside
> the way where people wait for the bus. The public_transport tags at
> least clearly separate the place people wait (using the word
> platform) from where the vehicle stops.
>
> Ed
>
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