Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Roger Slevin
I have not been able to follow the large number of posts on this group in recent weeks - but I can confirm that stopareas are an important part of NaPTAN data in the UK, and are an important aspect of the way that stops data are used in journey planning applications. It would be a pity if OSM

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 01/22/2011 11:04 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote: IMHO not related to the proposal: - potlatch can not handle the proposal/nested relations correctly: The latest version of Potlatch (Potlatch 2) handles nested relations excellently. About 10 seconds' research

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Michał Borsuk
Am 24.01.2011 10:00, schrieb Dominik Mahrer (Teddy): On 01/22/2011 11:04 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote: IMHO not related to the proposal: - potlatch can not handle the proposal/nested relations correctly: The latest version of Potlatch (Potlatch 2) handles nested

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 01/22/2011 08:38 PM, Michał Borsuk wrote: On 01/22/2011 09:32 AM, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote: - stop_area is not needed/too complicated: [...]And it does not seam to be too complicated, And as for not needed: can we have a *separate discussion* on how routing works? There had already

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 01/24/2011 10:10 AM, Michał Borsuk wrote: As far as I understand the issue, stop areas are used to tie different stops into one transferring area. No, you did not understand correct. stop_area_group is (was?) for that. Teddych ___ Talk-transit

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Michał Borsuk
Am 24.01.2011 10:39, schrieb Dominik Mahrer (Teddy): On 01/24/2011 10:10 AM, Michał Borsuk wrote: As far as I understand the issue, stop areas are used to tie different stops into one transferring area. No, you did not understand correct. stop_area_group is (was?) for that. Then what is the

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Frankie Roberto
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Michał Borsuk michal.bor...@gmail.comwrote: Am 24.01.2011 09:39, schrieb Roger Slevin: I have not been able to follow the large number of posts on this group in recent weeks - but I can confirm that stopareas are an important part of NaPTAN data in the UK,

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 01/24/2011 11:00 AM, Michał Borsuk wrote: Am 24.01.2011 10:39, schrieb Dominik Mahrer (Teddy): On 01/24/2011 10:10 AM, Michał Borsuk wrote: As far as I understand the issue, stop areas are used to tie different stops into one transferring area. No, you did not understand correct.

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Roger Slevin
Frankie, I think you have mentioned some good examples. For simple pairs or even small clusters of stops then a stoparea often can be defined by rules – and indeed the systems I am working with in the UK uses such rules to define an “implicit” stoparea – the rules we use are that the

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Christian
On 23.01.2011 13:18, Michał Borsuk wrote: On 01/23/2011 12:57 PM, Vincent Privat wrote: 2011/1/23 Michał Borsuk michal.bor...@gmail.com mailto:michal.bor...@gmail.com Could you please explain what you mean, because I'm not sure. The links provided show bus routes with nothing

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Richard Mann
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Christian christ...@balticfinance.com wrote: but it also includes people ... who would like to map also physical path a bus takes on the street. I think there's a logic in encouraging the use of ordered relations to show the paths of bus/etc routes - because

Re: [Talk-transit] New proposal to store public transport data

2011-01-24 Thread Oleksandr Vlasov
Michał Borsuk michal.borsuk at gmail.com writes: Continuing on How routing software works (and why OSM as-is is not ready for routing): Hello, makes perfect sense, assuming OSM is mapping, not routing project and some other layer will be needed for the routing. Just a small set of

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Michał Borsuk
On 01/24/2011 12:40 PM, Christian wrote: On 23.01.2011 13:18, Michał Borsuk wrote: No, this can't be done in such detail, but it's not necessary as of 2011. All you need to know is where is the bus stop for the direction you're interested in, or whether the bus stop you found serves you

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Michał Borsuk
On 01/24/2011 02:09 PM, Richard Mann wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Christianchrist...@balticfinance.com wrote: but it also includes people ... who would like to map also physical path a bus takes on the street. I think there's a logic in encouraging the use of ordered relations to

Re: [Talk-transit] New proposal to store public transport data

2011-01-24 Thread Michał Borsuk
On 01/24/2011 03:04 PM, Oleksandr Vlasov wrote: Michał Borsukmichal.borsukat gmail.com writes: Just a small set of questions: 1. As I can see, currently stop-on-a-way is the preferred approach for mapping tram stops. Do you propose to map tram stops like bus ones, i.e. beside the way? I'd

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Christian Krützfeldt
On 01/24/2011 12:40 PM, Christian wrote: On 23.01.2011 13:18, Michał Borsuk wrote: No, this can't be done in such detail, but it's not necessary as of 2011. All you need to know is where is the bus stop for the direction you're interested in, or whether the bus stop you found serves

Re: [Talk-transit] New proposal to store public transport data

2011-01-24 Thread Dominik Mahrer (Teddy)
On 01/24/2011 07:24 PM, Michał Borsuk wrote: On 01/24/2011 03:04 PM, Oleksandr Vlasov wrote: 3. bus_stop already defines `ref' tag, will proposed `stop_id' be something different? ref= on a bus stop? That's news to me (sadly). I used stop_id=, but the mess probably comes from the fact that

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism - a real example from Zürich

2011-01-24 Thread Michał Borsuk
On 01/24/2011 10:16 AM, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote: On 01/22/2011 08:38 PM, Michał Borsuk wrote: On 01/22/2011 09:32 AM, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote: The more exact the OSM map is, the more likely it is that the two directions do not share the same way for the both directions (the lines

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Michał Borsuk
On 01/25/2011 12:19 AM, Michał Borsuk wrote: On 01/24/2011 11:38 PM, Christian Krützfeldt wrote: If disagree then please attack my arguments with counter-arguments. I stand by what I wrote. Well, I could agree with you that your proposal is fine for most usage cases. But below you say it

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Michał Borsuk
On 01/24/2011 11:22 AM, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote: By the way, I have removed stop_area_group from the proposal. In essence this is good. I tried to implement this concept in OSM, but could not find (come up with) a sensible standard. Then what is the exact difference between

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Michał Borsuk
On 01/24/2011 11:06 AM, Frankie Roberto wrote: [...] I don't think you'd consider Embankment and Charing Cross stations to be part of the same stop area, even though they're very close to each other? On the other hand, some stop areas (Waterloo perhaps) may be huge, even though it may take you

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-24 Thread Magnus Bäck
On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 00:23 CET, Michal Borsuk michal.bor...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/25/2011 12:19 AM, Michal Borsuk wrote: Graphically lost, so no arrows (that didn't work anyway, because there are streets in which bus A runs one-way north, bus B runs one-way south, and