Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-09 Thread Aidan McGinley
Looking at your Kew Gardens tag it looks excellent with just one issue. It's correctly tagged for all 3 networks in one as National Rail;London Underground;London Overground but it does tag both stop positions on the two oposite direction tracks as railway=station which i feel should both be

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-09 Thread Dudley Ibbett
to map these? Thanks Dudley Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 09:45:51 + From: aidmcgin+openstreet...@gmail.com To: jameschurch...@gmail.com CC: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems Looking at your Kew Gardens tag it looks excellent with just one issue. It's

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-09 Thread Derick Rethans
On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, James Churchman wrote: I was originally attempting to get all the London Underground Tube stations and Rail stations from OSM ( london xml file ) The issues with the data I have had are : 1) Some stations are tagged as Nodes, some as Ways and some as Relations snip

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-09 Thread James Churchman
Hi Aidan, yes that looks a lot better having the line stops as stop_positions rather than being stations! think it draws better on osm.org now too! Also I missed that the larger building Way 199669935 covered the station as a large area! Finally nit picking, should they be the more specific

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-09 Thread Derick Rethans
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013, James Churchman wrote: I am not sure that two nodes really does make sense when both tagged as stations? Having two nodes makes sense for sure, but both tagged as stations? are they really just not different buildings, entrances, lines or platforms of the same station that

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-09 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 14:30 +, Derick Rethans wrote: What's wrong with names in different languages? Nothing as long as it is from a verifiable source and names should really not break the rule of 'map what we see'. Nowhere will you see Фаррингдон, what is its source? In terms of making a

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-09 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 15:42 +, James Churchman wrote: looks great .. tho still not quite sure of the difference between a halt and a stop a stop_position etc.. mostly seem to be used interchangeably and in reality interchangeably with a platform etc.. I doubt there are any halts on the

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Derick Rethans wrote: What's wrong with names in different languages? Names in different languages are genuine content and therefore worth tagging (e.g. Londres, Moscow). Simple transliterations aren't content, however. They're essentially just algorithmic derivatives. AFAICT the Russian names

[Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-08 Thread James Churchman
Hi Guys I was originally attempting to get all the London Underground Tube stations and Rail stations from OSM ( london xml file ) The issues with the data I have had are : 1) Some stations are tagged as Nodes, some as Ways and some as Relations London Bridge is large area Way:

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-08 Thread Aidan McGinley
James, Seems like a bit of a mess alright. Take a look at the approved proposal for public transport which should be the standard to work towards I would think - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Public_Transport I attempted to apply this to Kew Gardens station a while back (

Re: [Talk-GB] London Tube Tagging Problems

2013-03-08 Thread James Churchman
Hi Aidan, thanks for such a fast reply! Yes very messy indeed!! Great i had a good read of that link you sent along with http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dstation and a few others. Reading : --- * For simple modeling of simple stations with a single track (or one in each