Hi Joseph On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 15:59, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I still haven't seen any benefit in adding public_transport=platform > to highway=bus_stop or highway=platform or railway=platform features, > and it doesn't look like the =stop_position tag is needed for routers > either, so all 3 of the main public_transport tags (except perhaps the > stop_area relation?) are rarely helpful.
I agree, and it seems that most people that took part in this long discussion [1] i initiated in April about improving public transport mapping agreed too. [1]: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-transit/2019-April/002052.html While highway=bus_stop works in most simpler cases, it doesn't work very well for bus stations. For example, consider this simplified map of the postbus station in Bern. [2] [2]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Postautostation_Bern.svg It consists of seven platforms, numbered 1–7, and a mere pole on the sidewalk with the number 8. As highway=bus_stop and highway=platform both use the the highway=* key and thus can't be combined, for every platform i would need to map a highway=platform and a highway=bus_stop object. But which one should get the ref=*? Both? And which one should be added to the route relation? Usually highway=bus_stop is added to the route relation, but for trains, it is the platform. A possible solution of this problem were to invent a new tag for stops, which doesn't use the highway=* or railway=* key and thus can be combined with highway/railway=platform (e.g. public_transport=stop; or, alternatively, a new tag for platforms). However, i haven't got any feedback on that idea, so i don't know whether the community would accept such a change in tagging. Regards Markus _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
