On 28 June 2012 12:02, Tom Chance <[email protected]> wrote: > There are two pages on the wiki, each giving slightly different advice, each > containing confused, ambiguous and conflicting suggestions: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railway_stations > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dstation
My bugbears are that building=railway_station and railway=station areas have long been confused. I don't really see the difficulty, since in most cases the footprint of the building (if there is one) bears little resemblance to the whole station. I would tag building=railway_station around one or more buildings, and have a railway=station area surrounding the building, platforms and whatever else makes sense to include. Unfortunately, one prolific railway mapper in the UK disagrees with the above, and has in the past converted railway=station areas into building=railway_station (which is usually inappropriate, even for large terminus stations) and added a separate railway=station node, which is vexing. Or, like in the example on the wiki, people add both railway=station and building=railway_station to the same area, which again show more muddled thinking rather than appropriate mapping. If we could agree that railway=station nodes can be mapped in more detail as station areas, and building=railway_station is kept for the building(s) themselves (and otherwise untagged with ref etc), then that would at least be a start. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
