On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Jonathan Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > There was this discussion on talk-gb recently: > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2013-January/014376.html
Yeah, that's actually what prompted this discussion - I was pointed there by Andy Allan when I commented on some OpenCycleMap rendering peculiarities. I guess there is a complete continuum between "there is an active train station here" and "there was once a train station here, but now there is nothing but a memory": railway=station (active) disused:railway=station (temporarily or recently inactive) railway:historic=station (a building that was formerly a station, and is now decrepit or used for a different purpose?) historic:railway=station (the same thing?) railway:historic=station_site (less than a building - maybe a marker, an old platform etc.) Do I have this right? How does one tag a station that is active, but also of great historical value? Greg wrote: >But, I'd ask: how is the distinction between a station location and >station building made now, for stations that are in service? Is it >really railway=station vs building=train_station? I can't speak for others, but "building=yes" is the only building tag I ever use. Otherwise you get into a double tagging mess. So I put a "railway=station" node at the centre, and various "building=yes" and "railway=platform" ways as needed. (What is a "station building" technically, anyway... frequently stations have several buildings, etc.) Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
