Belatedly following up. I've updated the wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railway_stations) with my understanding. Further changes of course welcome.
Steve On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > All of these exist in taginfo, and have at least 10 hits: > > railway:historic=station_site (376) > railway:historic=station (188) > historic:railway=station (230) > > historic=station (10) > historic=railway_station (37) > historic=station_site (65) > > disused:railway=station (223) > disused=station (64) > > (And of course very many railway=station, disused=yes combos, deprecated.) > > Would anyone like to speculate on which of these is preferred, and > what the possible semantics are? > > I can kind of see two distinctions being made above: > * historic vs disused: whether the fact of there being a station is > actually of historical interest. (As opposed to a station built in the > 1980s and shut down a couple of years ago, or never put into service > or something.) > * station vs station_site: whether there are any physical remains to see. > > Also, anyone know which renderers/styles support which? > > Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging