On 22/03/19 10:37, Ewen Hill wrote:
Re vision impaired users. Is this where https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dplatform_edge could be useful and whilst there is no route, ot may assist... or hinder as it may not be rendered.
They do have those ripple strips/buttons that you can sense under your feet.. Arr OSM tactile_paving=* https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tactile_paving
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, 9:43 AM Warin <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: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. "Platform8+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-- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.On 21 March 2019 11:26:39 am AEDT, Thomas Manson <[email protected]> <mailto:[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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