On 14/03/19 10:18, Andrew Harvey wrote:
You're right railway=station per the wiki
+1
Railway stations are mapped as an area covering the whole station
(tracks, buildings, platforms, etc.) or a node at the center of
the station from passengers' point of view. This is usually an
unconnected node at the platform area. This node does not have to
be part of a railway track.
If you want to map the station as an area, please consider that
different people describe the station area differently. While
passengers only have the area around the station building and the
platforms in mind, railway staff and railway enthusiasts think of
the whole railway area which begins at the entry signal at one
side and ends at the entry signals at the other side.
So https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/34891023/ should be
railway=station in my opinion, that would cover the whole area and
encompass all the platforms, buildings, roofs, and tracks which are
part of Central Station.
I agree the building roof's shouldn't have the name Central Station,
it should come from the railway=station areas which encompasses them.
That would involve moving all the station tags off
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/16748116 and onto the current
landuse way.
If https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/34891023/ is to be the
railway=station then it needs to be expanded to include the are of
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/16748116
And https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/16748116 needs some corrections!
The area is not a stop for a train. And it is only part of a
public_transport=station
Note: don't be too hard on the mappers who added these. OSM is
developing over time and the OSM definitions of thing can and do change
over time so past entries may have been correct at the time of entry. On
the other hand .. we all make errors!
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 08:31, Thomas Manson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
I am new to Open Street Maps, so I apologise if I miss something
obvious.
I am working with the developers of an app for vision impaired
users that helps then navigate unfamiliar locations, and we are
trying to help them navigate train stations in Australia, and I am
specifically looking at Central Statin in Sydney.
From my reading of the Tag:railway=station notes here
(https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dstation), it
appears that a station area should include the whole area of the
station. At Central station, this is not the case, and the
platform rooves have been added as standalone features, with no
association with the Central Station. This has resulted in the app
calling these out as additional features in the area, which
confuses our users, as they are not separate features.
I initially tagged each roof with the Name of Central station, but
it was pointed out to me that this is probably incorrect, and I am
happy to remove those names. However, I would like to propose
changing the shape of the feature with tag:railway=station to
include the area that has the platform rooves too. The features
that are the rooves would still be there as individual features.
Can anyone tell me if this is a good idea, or something I
shouldn’t do?
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