Streetcomplete: New quest: Add name to bus stops/trams

Created on 27 Aug 2017  Â·  12Comments  Â·  Source: westnordost/StreetComplete

Bus stops should always have a name. Because otherwise you cannot search for bus stops on the map, which makes them quite useless.

  • [x] Easy to answer, i.e. everyone can easily solve it (from the outside)
  • [x] Easy user interface. (similar to streetname quest)
  • [x] Has a useful purpose. (bus stops are useless without it, see above)
  • [x] Established tag. (name is established, of course)
  • [x] Low unanswerable quests. (i.e. low false positives; bus stops should have a street sign in all countries)
  • [x] It can be determined, if the quest is needed to be asked. (Yes, if the name is not set.)

However…

  • [ ] the quest applies to a reasonable number of things (i.e. is not a small quest, whcih can only be found in one city) – I am not sure about this, as I don't know how common is this "defect" of a missing for such an object is.

Issue idea by @chrisdebian, original issue https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete/issues/548

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About 400000 bus stops currently have no name

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Of course, this also applies to trams.

Not sure what you mean with the last checkbox, I see no problem there. Generally, all/most bus stops across most countries have names.

I just mean that maybe the problem this quest tackles is really small (in your new checklist that is the "Applies to a reasonable number of elements"): Because are not all bus stops on OSM mostly correctly mapped with a name on it? Is there even a reasonable number of bus stops without a name?

I am not sure about this…

About 400000 bus stops currently have no name

I have no idea how you got this number, but that is more than enough to be worth a quest.

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/highway=bus_stop#combinations

Total highway=bus_stop: 1918159
highway=bus_stop with name=*: 1573134

(And that's only highway=bus_stop)

This would fall under https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete/issues/309, right? And have the same translation problems?

Hm`? Usually, bus stops are not that close to each other that you can mistake one for the other.

Not that there would be bus stop confusion, but that it would make sense to roll this into the general 'What is the name of this {object}?" quest, rather than having a separate name quest for bus stops. And that that quest is blocked by the translation issue.

I think a specific quest would make sense – even if it is just for the different (more appropriate) icon. I see no translation issue when you just ask "What is the name of this bus stop?" for this quest.

Still something that should be done ? We have an interest for a local group of having a quest for setting bus stop names, so I can work on this.

No, it can be implemented.

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