Re: [Talk-GB] railway=halt

2020-02-07 Thread Dave F via Talk-GB
On 31/01/2020 23:49, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote: Hi Over the past few months I've been sorting & adding detail to the UK's National Rail railway stations so that OSM has the correct amount. As it's been a week, with no objections, I'm proceeding with the amendments. I'm keeping a copy of the

Re: [Talk-GB] railway=halt

2020-02-01 Thread Dave F via Talk-GB
On 01/02/2020 12:40, Tony OSM wrote: Hi Great to see your station work. Thanks I agree they should all be station. If DfT classifies stations as A-F or whatever then a tag to indicate that would be useful. These DfT classifications seem to be used by the rail industry to indicate

Re: [Talk-GB] railway=halt

2020-02-01 Thread Dave F via Talk-GB
On 01/02/2020 10:39, Gareth L wrote: Just to throw in some awkward cases, there are stations which are request stops in one direction only. E.g. Llanwrda is request stop southbound but always stops northbound. Basing use of this tag on service pattern, which changes every 6 months seems not

Re: [Talk-GB] railway=halt

2020-02-01 Thread Tony OSM
Hi Great to see your station work. I agree they should all be station. If DfT classifies stations as A-F or whatever then a tag to indicate that would be useful. These DfT classifications seem to be used by the rail industry to indicate roughly importance by passenger numbers, from which

Re: [Talk-GB] railway=halt

2020-02-01 Thread David Woolley
On 01/02/2020 09:26, Philip Barnes wrote: In GB halt has been used to indicate request stops. That was certainly the context in which I came across them, in this case, Warrenby Halt, on the, then British Steel iron works at Redcar, which has now been mothballed, after only a short life.

Re: [Talk-GB] railway=halt

2020-02-01 Thread Gareth L
Just to throw in some awkward cases, there are stations which are request stops in one direction only. E.g. Llanwrda is request stop southbound but always stops northbound. Basing use of this tag on service pattern, which changes every 6 months seems not so easy to maintain. Gareth On 1 Feb

Re: [Talk-GB] railway=halt

2020-02-01 Thread Philip Barnes
In GB halt has been used to indicate request stops. That is the how they are described by train staff, as opposed to Principal Stations where the train always stops. You will find lots of halts on the Cambrian, Heart of Wales and three on the Shrewsbury Crew Railway. Typical announcement

Re: [Talk-GB] railway=halt

2020-01-31 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB
Feb 1, 2020, 00:49 by talk-gb@openstreetmap.org: > I've now added them with the more explicit tag 'request_stop=yes'. > BTW, I just created wiki page for this tag at it appeared to be undocumented and it seems to have no competing versions:

Re: [Talk-GB] railway=halt

2020-01-31 Thread Dave F via Talk-GB
On 01/02/2020 00:05, Martin Wynne wrote: The traditional distinction was that Halts were unstaffed. These are now classed as DfT F, which is also worth adding. DaveF ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] railway=halt

2020-01-31 Thread Martin Wynne
The traditional distinction was that Halts were unstaffed. Martin. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb