Lester Caine schreef: > graham wrote: > >> Steve Hill wrote: >> >>> How are people tagging bus stops? I have been setting tagging nodes that >>> are members of the way, which means they are part of the road they are on. >>> Is this the right way to do it? It seems right since it unambiguously >>> shows which road the stop is on, but it doesn't allow any indication as to >>> which side of the road the stop is on. >>> >> I've been doing the opposite, and have only recently realised that your >> way is the way I was supposed to do it.. >> >> I have mapped quite a few bus stops where the bus stop is on a >> pedestrian island and I want to show not only 'side of road' but also a >> fairly exact physical position. I'd be reluctant to give that up to >> plonk all my bus stops in the middle of the road... >> >> I wonder if anyone has done any counts of how many stops in the db are >> points in ways, and how many are points beside ways? >> > > I did think that was the counts Jon included in his earlier post? > The 'highway' counts show 13532 bus stops, but yours must be in the 216 > independent objects? > > The 'side' information has a number of areas that need covering other than > just bus stop or halt location. No right/left turn from other side of road > for > example. And the problem of pedestrian routing showing things like safe > crossing points adds another level of complexity. > > p.s. adding all the pedestrian crossings and bus stops on the South Circular > in London along with all the no right turn alternate routes and information > on > which lane you should be in would probably cover EVERY possible option. How > do > people cope around there? Took me 2 hours to get from Croydon around to the > M4 > yesterday :( I'll use the M25 next time ;) > When I tag a bus stop, I always use highway=bus_stop. I didn't know about the amenity=bus_stop. I put them next to the road though. So the count we would like to see is independent/loose highway=bus_stop and highway=bus_stop that are actually part of a highway.
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