I disagree. I might drive up to a post box to post a letter, if I was really lazy. However, unless I'm a bus driver (and let's face it, they're not going to be the main map users) you are unlikely to drive up to a bus stop to get on a bus (unless you're dropping someone off of course, in which case you may cause an obstruction to a bus.) Bus stops are POIs that are primarily of interest to pedestrians, not motorists, so which side of the road they are matters, and the logical place to put nodes is, IMHO, next to the road, not in the middle of it. The bus may stop in the road, or it may pull into a layby that forms part of the bus stop. However, the bus stop user stands to the side of the road. Discussions about whether the node can easily be understood by routers to be connected to the way seem spurious to me - surely you should just connect them into a route relation? Just my 2p, anyway... Dave
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:26:44 +0200 From: "leblatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: To: "'robin paulson'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: 'OSM Talk' <talk@openstreetmap.org> Re: [OSM-talk] Left and Right? IMO, comparing bus stops to post boxes or phone booths is a bit specious. Of course the bus stop shelter, or sign, is off the road/street. Or else they would cause some problems to motorists ! But they are in fact closely tied to that road, as the buses that stop there drive on that road, not aside it. OTOH, when you want to use a post box or a phone booth, you normally don't just stop on the road nearby, you have to park somewhere and walk to it. Thus they are really off-road features, unrelated to the road. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
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