Similarly, there is debate as to whether the main concourse bridge at Sheffield station is a PRoW (http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/22979084). This is partly why there are no automated ticket barriers at Sheffield (yet).
Regards, *Paul* On 11 July 2017 at 12:16, SK53 <sk53....@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd look to ask some of the people involved in the Transilien project in > France, perhaps Florian Lainez as he's an ex Mappa Mercian. Judging by > taginfo <http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/qk0> they use > railway=train_station_entrance (so much for British english in tags), > probably in conjunction with entrance=*. > > SNCF even have an internal app called mapmygare for adding station > details: there is some hope that they may open-source it. > > A couple of other points about station entrances: > > - (Obvious) accessibility info is useful > - ticket barriers (presence or not) where these are close to or part > of the entrance > - opening hours for side entrances (& possibly for ticket barriers > too, suburban stations often leave them open after staff have finished > work) > - presence of an intercom (e.g., on E-side of Horsham station) to get > someone to let you through the barrier > - public rights of way through stations (i.e., notional places on > stations where you don't need a ticket). Paul Sladen defended the one > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/165120168> at Nottingham station. > Here I think 'duck' tagging is the way to proceed, so entrances from the > street should be tagged not tops of stairs from the PRoW. > > Please also count steps on bridges/subways etc: typically they are 10, 12 > or 16 treads to a flight. From personal experience the length a flight is > as important as the total number of steps: one can take a breather at the > end of each flight. So 24 steps in one run are a completely different > matter from 2 flights of 12. > > Cheers, > > Jerry > > Jerry > > On 11 July 2017 at 07:50, Jez Nicholson <jez.nichol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Please be adding your snippets of knowledges, tag details, and activity >> descriptions to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2017_Q3_Project:_B >> us_Route_Relations_%26_Station_Entrances so that the less initiated can >> pick a thing to do. >> >> Regards, >> Jez >> >> On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 at 23:35 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 11-Jul-17 03:03 AM, Andy Townsend wrote: >>> > On 10/07/2017 14:26, Stuart Reynolds wrote: >>> >> I have also come across several styles of station tagging, even in my >>> >> local (single line) area. >>> > >>> > What'd be really useful, actually, would someone pointing at a good >>> > "example station" in an OSM diary entry or similar and explain how the >>> > various bits are tagged (without getting into the holy wars about >>> > public transport v1 and v2 route tagging, if possible). >>> >>> +1. Even a reasonable example where a 'good' example cannot be found. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-GB mailing list >>> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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