This screen about intercity trains is confusing and unclear

[DeflateAwning]

Problem:

I don't understand what this screen is asking:

There are no inter-city trains in my city. Which options am I supposed to pick?

If you can explain what's going on here, maybe I can suggest some better wording?

[vingerha]

I see the issue...is a bit odd.
This screen allows to selectr between using

• Trains, which have a start/end using cities (manually entered)
• Non-trains, selecting from start/end stops provided by the data

[vingerha]

Suggestion... and do note that clicking on the 'doc' link will provide more details...it is impossible to provide all explanations in (size-limited) config screens

[DeflateAwning]

You shouldn't have to visit documentation to understand what the options are.

I still don't understand, even after reading the docs.

What happens when you click each button? Which button did you click in your bus example in the documentation?

[vingerha]

You are the first and only that seems to have an issue with this, so if you think you can do better...please suggest a PR

[DeflateAwning]

I'm still trying to understand what the buttons do so that I can. Can you please try explaining what happens when you choose each option?

Sorry I'm not understanding. Please don't get angry, though.

[vingerha]

First : allows to select transport of those provided through the zip...but it excludes (!) selecting trains
Second: allows to setup train connections, based on (manually) entered cities
WHY? because train stations often have a lot (!) of stop_id and you'd need to configure each one of them for both start and end

EDIT: on the 2nd...it ONLY allows to deal with trains....nothing else

[vingerha]

Hey, are you OK with the above ? I alreayd brought a few things to production but I am not totally happy myself as well... 100% will never be achieved but maybe you have the right response to my blind eye(s) ?
Else, please close the topic...if no response I will close in a few days myself

[DeflateAwning]

Ah sorry, thanks for the explanation.

May I propose this as the text?

Select a type of transport:

1. Intracity Transport: exclude selecting intercity trains
2. Intercity Transport: configure cities and stop IDs manually

Let me know if I'm still missing the point though.

[vingerha]

But that is not the situation

1. can have long distance buses, can be for a region, country, etc.
2. is ONLY trains and even trains have intra-city stops

[DeflateAwning]

I'll try again:

Select a display option:

1. Default: Datasource includes many types of transit.
2. Datasource is too large to enumerate; configure cities and stop IDs manually

[DeflateAwning]

Can you give an example of a city/GTFS source that I can view to better understand these two options?

[vingerha]

Thx for sticking / persevering :) but again....this is not what it is

1. covers all transport, except trains
2. covers only trains

Examples
Netherlands ...there is only one zip covering the whole country, same for Switzerland
Germany has various offerings, one for country/all, one for longdistance trains and multiple for regional trains

[vingerha]

I am closing this topic as it seems to not find a solution and no-one else joins or comments.

[DeflateAwning]

Hold on, your solution is to keep it as-is? I'm convinced that any of the options above are better than what's currently there.

[vingerha]

I changed it a bit in the latest release but you should also understand that I cannot uphold a discussion that has seemingly no interest to the larger group of users

[vingerha]

And donot get me wrong...if you have a matching good proposal...happy to implement, I donot have the single view on the truth :)

[vingerha]

New setup

[DeflateAwning]

This looks great, way better, thanks!