John Doe wrote > I don't understand why the critics of PTv2 seem to think stop positions > are such a big deal - they are optional!
My memory of starting to map bus stops a few years ago is that it wasn't clear from the documentation that stop positions are optional. I certainly formed the impressions that they were required, and came to regret spending so much time mapping both stop positions and platforms. At that time I think the main reference for how to map using PTv2 was the proposal page itself, now archived at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?oldid=625726. That doesn't indicate that stop_position is optional (see "the Schema in short", where stop_area is explicitly described as optional, but stop_position is not). It seems other wiki pages have since been edited to make this optionality clearer. I notice that they also refer to adding bus=yes etc to platforms representing bus stops, which was not part of the PTv2 proposal, but I guess tries to deal with one of the issues that led people to prefer highway=bus_stop. Bringing this closer to the original topic ... if the proposal for PTv3 is "PTv2 with some exceptions", is there a single coherent reference for what is meant by "PTv2"? -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Tagging-f5258744.html _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
