The point would be that it then becomes possible to leave out
highway=bus_stop by contributors who want to do that, thus opening the
possibility to migrate towards the new scheme.

Jo


2013/12/11 Richard Mann <[email protected]>

> Simply rendering public_transport=platform+bus=yes (if that's correct) as
> a bus stop is a matter of a few lines of xml in the tag-transform (to
> insert a highway=bus_stop tag in relevant nodes, which the normal rendering
> processes can pick up). Though since this is functionally the same as the
> mappers adding a highway=bus_stop tag to the nodes then you do rather
> wonder what is the point.
>
> Of course it's probably more complicated than that, which is why the
> people who use these tags need to state what needs to be done, and in what
> situations.
>
> See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/TagTransform
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Mike N <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 12/11/2013 11:07 AM, fly wrote:
>>
>>> If you keep on adding both schemes simultaneously you will not notice
>>> the problem and there will be no reason for developers to adjust the
>>> software.
>>>
>>
>>  One of the problems in this situation is the map rendering developers
>> have not taken an interest in the new scheme.
>>
>>   If someone has submitted a 'pull request' that included the new tagging
>> scheme but it was ignored, that is a different story.  OSM is frequently
>> described as a do-ocracy - in which finished and coded solutions win out
>> over what is needed.  And it's quite possible that we public transport
>> mappers have been collecting and entering the information but have never
>> gotten into CSS Map stylesheets, or whatever is the technology behind the
>> renderers.
>>
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