Stops should snap to piers and footpaths when no road nearby

[smsm1]

If there is a pier or footpath much closer to a stop than a road, especially the case for trams, ferries and cable cars, then the pier or footpath should be routed along rather than trying to snap to the nearest road.

[novalis]

Not so sure about trams; GTFS defines it as:
Tram, Streetcar, Light rail. Any light rail or street level system within a metropolitan area. So, that seems like it should follow the same rules.

Also, cable car is used only for San Francisco's cable cars (or the equivalent, if any exists). You are probably thinking of gondolas.

[smsm1]

Oh the joys of American vs British English. Yup by cable car I mean gondola, though cable car is the more common name for it in the UK. I'm thinking that I might change the en_gb translation to that.

Many parts of the British tram network does operate away from roads once you get outwith the town centre, where you only have a footpath between the tramstop and the nearby housing etc. Many of the tram stops are marked with the rail platform, including the connectivity to the street, e.g. if there are steps, thus allowing you to ensure that you get the correct routing avoiding steps.

[novalis]

We do snap to highway=platform as well as roads that allow cars, so that's handled.

[koch-t]

Isn't it:

railway=platform (rail,tram)
public_transport=platform (everything)

[smsm1]

According to http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=platform#values there is 21.5k highway=platform in the osm database, however that is the old way of mapping them, and railway=platform and public_transport=platform are the new ways to map them.

[novalis]

Yeah, we support all of those.

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