I read up on the rather exhausting history of public transport tagging. The strange thing is that the approved proposal which introduced public_transport=* and the current public_transport pages suggest using bus=yes only for public_transport=stop_position. In contrast, public_transport=platform doesn't have bus=yes added.
Does this mean that tagging highway=bus_stop on the same node as public_transport=platform is the approved way to specify that a certain "platform" is a bus stop? It certainly looks that way. Does this mean that tagging public_transport=platform + highway=bus_stop was the tagging that was intended by the proposal to specify bus stops, and public_transport=platform + railway=platform for train platforms, etc? It appears that the proposal specifically said that the existing tags like highway=bus_stop were not deprecated. Current usage confirms this: in the past year just as many (or perhaps slightly more?) highway=bus_stop have been added as a public_transport=platform - about 350,000 each - though the latter tag also can be used for railways, trams, etc. Joseph _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
