They are CRS codes. Richard Mann wrote: > 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* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > 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 <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > 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 <http://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 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit >
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