Sounds sensible to me. No doubt there will be other opinions. Cheerio John
On 5 Nov 2017 1:16 pm, "Jarek Piórkowski" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > First post here, sorry if I mess anything up! > > A few months back I noticed that station names for Vancouver Skytrain > rapid transit system (all lines) are inconsistent: 32 of them have > "Station" in their name, but 23 don't, with little apparent pattern by > line or location. > > Most of all I would like to make it consistent one way or the other - > I hope that's not controversial. Which way is then the question. > > I made a note about this in downtown Vancouver near Granville station, > but didn't get much response: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/858075 > > On the ground, signs on station entrances do include "Station", > examples (1) (2) below. Signs at platforms do not include "Station", > example (3). Other TransLink resources are not particularly > consistent: as one example, network maps like (4) do not include > "Station" but local station area maps like (5) do. > > Are there conventions on what format should be used - in Canada or in > general in OSM? I couldn't really find anything concrete. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names seems inconclusive on whether > it should include "Station". I saw a question (6) on help.osm.org > which was specific to Hong Kong and in the end hinged more on existing > consistency. > > Analogies from other cities: Toronto and Montreal have no "Station" in > subway/metro station names. Calgary has no "Station" in its LRT names > but Edmonton does. Seattle and Portland also have no "Station". > Possibly the closest analogy, though far away in London, England, see > (7) for example with photos: signs outside all tube stations have > format "Goodge Street Station" / "South Kensington Station"; signs at > platforms say "Goodge Street" / "South Kensington"; OSM tags > name=Goodge Street / name=South Kensington. > > Personally I would prefer no "Station", so making the names like > "Burrard", "Vancouver City Centre", "Nanaimo", "Inlet Centre". Does > anyone or any resource disagree? > > Cheers, > --Jarek > > (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vancouver_-_Burrard_ > Station_entrance_01.jpg > (2) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coquitlam_Central_ > Station_Exterior.jpg > (3) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coquitlam_Central_ > station_(SkyTrain).jpg > (4) http://infomaps.translink.ca/System_Maps/skytrain_bline_seabus_map.pdf > (5) https://www.translink.ca/en/Schedules-and-Maps/SkyTrain/ > SkyTrain-Station-and-Elevator-Maps.aspx > (6) https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/52852/railway- > stationmetro-station-naming > (7) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodge_Street_tube_station > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >
_______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
