stadtnavi / digitransit-ui

Digitransit UI Clone, especially for the city of Herrenberg ("stadtnavi.de")
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Different bus stops with same name are not helpful. Different icons for bus stops not useful. #664

Open MartinH-open opened 3 years ago

MartinH-open commented 3 years ago

As displayed in the image in Herrenberg city there are multiple bus stops labeled as "Herrenberg Kalkhofenstr." near the main station. Wenn selecting one the user is asked to chooce one of the labeled stops. But all display the same. So what is what stop. Different stops should be labeled differently! In the list the stops are displayed with an icon (flag post) different from the icon (circular sign with post)used in the legent.

Such inconstistency in icon design are all over. Square versus round, letter versus picture, coloring of foreground and background and no background

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MartinH-open commented 3 years ago

Not sure how to solve this long term. Often two bus stop (Wartebereiche) are available the two main directions on both sides of the road. Still the same name ist given for the two bus stops. The direction of travel is often different (going east and going west; or north and south or whatever). Often the direction is evident for a given destination like next city the bus is going to (e.g to Böblingen or to Calw). Perhaps the main direction of travel the bus will be heading towards would be a good additional indicator, which if not present in the OSM data could be added automatically by StadtNavi. Bus routes are attached to bus stops and so the main direction of all the bus routes from here could be used perhaps. If not solved in StadtNavi defer this issue to OSM.