[OSM-talk] public_transport=platform not rendered

[Jo]

I always read that paragraph as something transitional. But apparently
transition doesn't happen over 1,5 years, maybe 15 years is more realistic.
Although I'd expect another proposal would have emerged and possibly
approved by then... Hopefully one that allows for route relations to be
composed of subroutes between stops or for the common parts where many bus
routes use the same ways.

I would have at least expected the tags to be rendered by now. If not the
whole proposal/voting process happening on tagging and the wiki is kind of
moot, not to say almost useless. An exercise in futility. But maybe that's
why there is not a lot going on there anymore.

I wasn't going to change 1 million nodes, just convert the ones that I was
touching anyway and create the new ones as public_transport=platform. I'll
stick with highway=bus_stop instead. And keep increasing the statistics in
favour of that one. I hate wasting memory space and precious bandwith on
tagging stuff with two tags that supposedly have the same meaning.

Polyglot


2012/11/19 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Martin Koppenhöfer
> > Reading the comments on platform for bus stops in this thread it didn't
> look as if "converting" will ever be the way to go (if this implies
> deleting highway=bus_stop tags).
>
> Remember this wiki content:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport#What_this_proposal_does_not_cover
>
> quote : "This proposal does not replace, deprecate or obsolete the
> already existing and well known tags. The usage of the proposed tags
> is recommended but not mandatory. ".
>
> But as you already noticed in OSM, what is a "recommended" a day can
> quickly become "mandatory" the day after.
>
> Personnaly, I don't see the advantage to rename 1 millions tags
> without any gain or just because 12% of them are not besides the
> highway.
>
> Pieren
>
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