On 11 April 2018 at 19:38, Roland Hieber <li...@rohieb.name> wrote: > However, a main reason why the Public Transport schema was adopted [1] > was exactly this differentiation between stop position on the route and > platform position/waiting area for the passengers. This was done to > increase the expressiveness of OpenStreeMap data, and to make > information more easier obtainable for routing software. After all, the > two things are at different positions, and you cannot generally infer > the one from the other. Reverting to the old schema would therefore > take away that expressiveness. > > [1]: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport#Goal_of_this_public_transport_proposal
If the waiting area is mapped as a node, it can be projected on the road or rail, thus making a separate stop position node on the road or rail unnecessary. However, I think it is not very straightforward that this node is proposed to be tagged public_transport=platform and a possible physical platform highway=platform. In my opinion, tagging the waiting area node only highway=bus_stop or railway=tram_stop would be much less confusing. Besides these tags are self-explanatory. (And, as you wrote, these tags will probably remain needed for rendering purposes for a long time to come. Why double tagging then?) _______________________________________________ Talk-transit mailing list Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
