UK railway term for the three letter code (eg EUS for Euston) is (wait for it): tlc (most railway locations also have a 5-digit stanox, a 4-digit national location code (nlc), a tiploc and several more, but for stations, the tlc is the nearest to a meaningful short code)
I'd suggest something like tlc_ref Richard ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John McKerrell <j...@mckerrell.net> Date: Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ? To: Cc: Talk OSM <t...@openstreetmap.org> On the subject of railway stations. I think it would be good if tagged them with their reference codes (no idea what the correct term is), all the stations in the UK have codes and if you know them it's quicker to use them while searching. I'm not such a geek I know all of them but the ones I use regularly I tend to know (in the UK they're also useful for the traintimes.org.uk site, e.g. http://traintimes.org.uk/sav/eus gets the next trains from Stratford-upon-Avon to London Euston). Just spotted the wiki mentions uic_ref so would this go under ref, or nr_ref (national rail) or something else? John _______________________________________________ talk mailing list t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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