On 21/03/19 22:30, Sebastian S. wrote:
If you believe Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_railway_station%2C_Sydney
The stations name is 'Central railway station' but it goes by many
colloquial names.
I don't like the way the platforms are named currently. "Platform 8+9
(8;9)" is surely not the name on the signboards.
Depends on what 'sign board' you look at as to the platform presentation.
The electronic sign boards at the station entry show a single platform
number, along with when the train leaves and the stops.
The fixed platform entry signs show the pair of platforms that the entry
accesses.
Some of the Australian platforms are split, some are paired. I prefer
split myself. But I am not making it a task for myself.
I am in favour of splitting the platforms to have each number just
called "Platform $". Maybe you can also indicated on which side 8 and
9 is in relation to a path which you would walk into the platform.
If the platforms are split that should give the user the required
indication.
Maybe name:left=Platform 8 makes sense?
Left and right depend on what direction you approach the platforms, at
Central you can approach lots of the platform pairs from ether direction.
Another question I have is how would you route a blind person to and
onto the platform when there is no way?
What about segment indicators. I have not been to central station but
I assume for long trains there are segment indicators along the
platform for passengers to find they carriages quicker. Are you
planning to mapping these?
I have no plans to map these. I don't know if there is a defined way to
map them. Do you ? If so you might give a link for those interested.
Have you looked at other train station in OSM?
I suggest to have a look at
Hamburg
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.552778&mlon=10.006389&zoom=15#map=18/53.55274/10.00677
Or Cologne https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/50.94319/6.95853
Or Paris Gare du Nord
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/48.88156/2.35623
Or London Kings Cross
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.53194/-0.12326
Regards Sebastian
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On 21 March 2019 11:26:39 am AEDT, Thomas Manson
<[email protected]> wrote:
Looking at Central Station, Sydney, the platform names are things
like 'Platform 4+5'. (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6015392)
From my reading of
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Apublic_transport%3Dplatform,
this should be
the name of the station , so in this case that would be either
Central or Central Station, with the platform numbers as the ref
tag (which is already populated).
1) First of all, is my understanding correct? It should be the
station name.
2) Secondly, should the name be Central or Central Station
(assuming 1 is correct)?
Regards,
Thomas
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