If there is an actual platform, I tend to create way for it. Until now I added both highway=platform and public_transport=platform to them. As far as I'm concerned, that's tagging for the renderer though. I could, of course, add both highway=bus_stop and public_transport=platform to the 40000 stops in Flanders, but I consider that a waste of precious space and bandwith.
I'd prefer to have 1 tag for 1 concept and that's the reason why the proposal got my vote. I'm very patient and I certainly didn't expect it to be implemented everywhere right away, but we're 1,5 years further now. I'll roll back the 100 or some such I already did and I'll go back to waiting for the rest of the osm world to catch up. I can change them in bulk at some point in the future. It seemed like a good opportunity to convert them now, as I'm reviewing all the stops in my region and it helped me to keep track of my progress. I created a nice new mapcss for the purpose, showing me the name, ref, zone as well as a route_ref and also a not_served_by, which I need for automatic quality checking. route_ref is interesting as well for bus service which most probably won't get a route relation (schoolbuses, market buses, student services and on call services (Belbus)). If Mapnik ever gets changed, maybe amenity=shelter, shelter_type=public_transport can also be rendered differently, since now there seem to be a lot of hiking shelters next to the roads in Belgium. Polyglot. 2012/11/17 Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de> > On 17.11.2012 10:15, Philip Barnes wrote: > > To tag bus stops as platform surely requires a survey? > > > > Tram stops tend to have platforms, as of course do railway stations of > > course. Bus stops are normally flat however. > > I think you are reading the public_transport=platform tag too literally. > It merely denotes the place where passengers are waiting for the > transportation vehicle. It does not distinguish between flat and raised > structures. > > Quoting the wiki, "If there is no platform in the real world, one can > place a node at the pole." > > Tobias > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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