Mapping public transport in detail was in part started to aid impaired people and people with diminished mobility. The stop_position is an attempt to tell for large/long platforms at which subarea of the platform you can expect a public service vehicle to have an entrance (regardless of its length, that may change with time of day or when the schedule of the company is overhauled).
The platform itself will not give you any clues which position to route a user to so that him/her readjusting position on that platform is minimal once the vehicle arrived and is ready for boarding.
If the platform exists, mapping it is more important than the stop_position, but the latter gives additional info _especially_ for lengthy or large platforms.
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There have been complaints about added pseudo-platforms in the data. This situation stems from the fact, that platforms are missing on ground (for lack of money, political decisions or because the halt is seen as a temporary one). _Nevertheless_, public transport users _do_ and _have_ to use parts of the area around the PT-pole as a platform. In this case the tag is not used to map a built structure, but how the space is effectively used on ground. If this is a problem, because the tag should ideally discrimnate built structure features, then either
a) find a new tag for wild platforms
b) allow the platform tag on nodes and use a single node only where a built platform structure does not exist
may be an solution.
Greetings
cmuelle8
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. März 2018 um 13:36 Uhr
Von: Jo <winfi...@gmail.com>
An: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" <tagging@openstreetmap.org>
Betreff: Re: [Tagging] Still RFC — Drop stop positions and platforms
Von: Jo <winfi...@gmail.com>
An: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" <tagging@openstreetmap.org>
Betreff: Re: [Tagging] Still RFC — Drop stop positions and platforms
That's what I would like to see happen. Last year I created a wiki page about it (with screenshots):
Polyglot
2018-03-29 13:09 GMT+02:00 Selfish Seahorse <selfishseaho...@gmail.com>:
> Otherwise, public_transport=stop_position could be abandoned, which would make PTv2 tagging a lot easier and more time-efficient.
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