On 04-Oct-16 09:05 AM, John Willis wrote:
On 4 Oct 2016, at 4:54 AM, Alexander Matheisen <[email protected]>
wrote:
The main problem I see for mapping stations as areas is the lack of
defined boundaries.
Almost all the stations I deal with are easily defined. They have fences,
walls, and bordering private buildings that make it dead-simple to map from
imagery.
I know there are stations where it is a little ambiguous, especially if they
are small - then use a point!
The fact that OSM has the hierarchy of detail - drop a point, make a building,
or draw an area are all options.
OSMs tagging scheme is incomplete to follow that vision. There are missing
areas (*cough* landuse=civic), and this is another.
Responding to a different reply:
And yes, a station's bus circle and other amenities are part of the station - a
station is where you can switch transportation networks. The stop position node
is for the train. The taxi stand nose is for the taxi. Everything is there for
the station it is an amenity *of* the station.
You may go to a hotel resort - is the pool part of the hotel? "You can't sleep in
the pool!" Of course the pool is part of the hotel. It is a mappable amenity of the
larger location.
Javbw
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There is a nice diagram of how to map a simple station
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dstation#A_Simple_Railway_Station
That clearly shows
the area .. mapped using the tag public_transport=station
and so on. It is very clear that the tag railway=station is intended to be a
node only from that diagram - other details should be mapped using other tags.
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