[OSM-talk] public_transport=platform not rendered

[Shaun McDonald]

On 18 Nov 2012, at 13:14, Richard Mann <richard.mann.westoxford at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are a million highway=bus_stop nodes, they are rendered, and there's no very good reason to change them.
>  
> There are 118,000 public_transport=platform nodes, of which 67% also have highway tags.
>  
> I'd just put highway=bus_stop on the public_transport=platform nodes (if they are bus stops), and be done with it.

+1

I don't see the benefit of changing all the highway=bus_stop to something else, when we have loads of them already, and they are the defacto way to map bus stops. It's easy enough to use some form of tag transform to convert them into the new format if you are a data user who prefers them that way.

What about railway=platform?

Shaun

> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
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