Yes Martin, same thing – but these are the big obvious ones. These are easy to say “that’s a bus station”, but what I’m trying to get at is that when you scale them down in size there is no clear line to be drawn when a bus station turns into a regular bus stop. When should the big icon become a small icon?
For example Lysaker: http://www.banenor.no/contentassets/3902666056fd47deb0e404589dda391f/oversikt-lysaker-520.jpg. The two split roads are each lined with multiple bus stops. It’s a major bus stop where almost all traffic to and from Oslo will stop, It has 7 waiting positions labeled A-G. It’s also combined with an important train station. Its half way between a street stop and a bus terminal. This is similar to what Johnparis mentions (http://artheme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/8-L15Est-FortAubervilliers-2.jpg). In the next mail you say “I would expect an area” and that’s what I’m thinking too in terms of defining a difference between an on-street-stop and a separate dedicated bus area – the size and importance is a different thing and I feel we are trying to jam multiple concepts into one un-unifiable terminology. I’m going to be bold and say remove amenity=bus_station and replace it with landuse=public_transport + public_transport=bus_station (and subsequently public_transport=train and so on). “Regular” bus stops “in the wild” would then just be relations with public=transport=platform as the only area-object. I’ll have to mention that I am by no means an expert on the OSM public transport scheme (any of them), mostly because pt is my daytime job and I can’t be bothered doing it in my free time as well ☺. From: Martin Koppenhoefer [mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com] Sent: mandag 9. april 2018 18.06 To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <tagging@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Unclear meaning of amenity=bus_station 2018-04-09 15:24 GMT+02:00 Wiklund Johan <johan.wikl...@entur.org<mailto:johan.wikl...@entur.org>>: I think there is no realistic distinction to be made between a bus station and a "regular" bus stop. Mainly because each bus stop is different from the next. One could argue that any bus stop where more than one waiting area is a bus station, or if it has some kind of amenity tied to it like a waiting room or toilets. But any stop can have an amenity, and the most rural and amenity-free stop can support several buses and have multiple waiting areas. just to make sure we are talking about the same things, these are some images of bus stations: http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-zob-central-bus-station-person-real-people-bus-coach-street-scene-78608111.html https://www.lanuovariviera.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/pullman.jpg https://cheaptravelforwomen.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/cheaptravelforwomeneurolinesparis.jpg Or also like this: https://www.alamy.de/fotos-bilder/bus-moroccan.html Is this the same you are writing about? Cheers, Martin
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