Hi
Great to see your station work.
I agree they should all be station.
If DfT classifies stations as A-F or whatever then a tag to indicate
that would be useful. These DfT classifications seem to be used by the
rail industry to indicate roughly importance by passenger numbers, from
which they base some decisions/discussions as to whether they should be
staffed or unstaffed or the hours of staffing. There was a recent
discussion about Chorley which from the publicly reported discussion I
believe to be class C.
Knowing request stops is helpful.
TonyS999
On 31/01/2020 23:49, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
Hi
Over the past few months I've been sorting & adding detail to the UK's
National Rail railway stations so that OSM has the correct amount.
I'm unsure of the benefits of tagging some of them as 'halts'. I'm
proposing they should all be 'station'.
All 2567 NR Stations with 96 halts in blue:
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Qik
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dhalt
Determining based on size, as the wiki suggests, is too subjective
IMO. How is 'size' determined? The number of platforms? Tracks?
Passenger usage (which fluctuates)? Note, OSM doesn't have an
equivalent tag to distinguish really big stations..
Another factor is if they're request stops. This is a much more
appropriate criteria. I've now added them with the more explicit tag
'request_stop=yes'.
All 137 Request Stops in blue: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Qil
65 of these are already tagged a stations.
British Rail remove all references to halts (1974?)
There are only two which have since been renamed to include halt. It
appears to be for purely cosmetic reasons. (The locals probably think
it'll increase property values).
I've contacted Thunderforest and OpenRailMap. Neither make a
distinction between halts & stations in their renders.
Carto label them the same but display halts at a higher zoom level,
which personally, I find irritating.
Opinions/Suggestions?
Cheers
DaveF
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