[OSM-talk] public_transport=platform not rendered

[Paul Norman]

> From: Ed Loach [mailto:ed at loach.me.uk]
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] public_transport=platform not rendered
> 
> > 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.

As of this afternoon there are 1020807 highway=bus_stop total and 123578 of
those are in a way.

So about 7.25x as many not as part of a way as in a way.