On 26/01/2016 1:38 PM, cleary wrote:
While undertaking various edits, I have notice multiple railway stations
with the words "Closed" or "Abandoned" or "Grain Only" as part of the
names.
I have changed some of these so that those words are removed from the
names and have added other tags to reflect the closed or abandoned
status.
For example:
abandoned:railway=station
name=Mulwala
disused:railway=station
name=Coorabin
railway=freight_station
freight_station=grain_only
name=Oaklands
I have noted that historic:railway=station_site is another possibility.
There seem to be many more disused railway stations that are identified
as railway=station even though there are no services. Am I correct in
making the above changes or can someone suggest better ways of tagging
these places.
name= 'not the name but the function/service'
Technically correct that it should not be done.:-) But used by many to convey
the meaning/feature.. tagging to be rendered.
I don't like it either ... yet I have done it. Once only. I have asked some if
name=Netball and derivatives was true... some respond that it is.
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historic tag can be combined with other tags. Though some of these have been
'restored' and incorporate cafes etc.
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For freight only
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenRailwayMap/Tagging#Marshalling_Yard.2FClassification_Yard.2FFreight_Yard.2FFreight_Station
suggests
railway=yard ... for a 'freight station'. Probably not rendered. Taginfo gives
just over 500 of these.. 0 for freight_station.
Then I suppose you can add
yard=grain_only
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