Just to say that I have just set Stefan Bethke up as an admin. There are now two administrators, myself and Stefan which is much better.
I would like to also say how impressed I am with the new public transport schema which is proving to be very useful for modeling the main railway stations in London. I have also been working on the OSM wiki over the past week providing more detail about this schema on more pages. Here are a few pages that I have pretty much finished. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:public_transport%3Dstop_position http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:public_transport%3Dstop_area http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:public_transport%3Dplatform http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:public_transport%3Dstation One question I do have is about how to tag the boundary of a station. For some purposes it seems to be important to have a node representing the station, and a node is also useful because it can be positioned over the main concourse or at any other appropriate location as opposed to being in the centre of the boundary which is often in the tracks/platform area. This begs the question about how to tag the area of the station. Take Paddington Station in London as an example. Here is the overarching stop_area for all the elements of public transport associated in some way with Paddington Station (this including the mainline station, two underground stations and a bunch of bus stops). http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/204439 Here is the stop area for Paddington mainline station itself (note that there is a node with role 'station' and the outline of the station with the role 'building'). Incidentally I am also starting to add footways within the station to the relation with the role 'access'. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1562706 Here is the station node. Note the 'note' that reads "DO NOT delete as route relations cannot have the building (area) as a 'stop'." http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/558489676 And here is the boundary of the station from which I removed the 'railway=station' tag and added a note that reads "please do not add a railway=station tag - there is already a node performing this function." http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/8877521/history I am not 100% comfortable with this approach because without a 'railway=station' tag the area is rendered as any other building rather than as a station. However.. if one adds the 'railway=station' tag to the building outline then one gets another instance of railway station rendered on the map. I know that we shouldn't tag to suit the renderer - this is more a question about how we want to tag things unambiguously and what we want the map to look like and therefore what we want the rendered to do! Regards, Peter Miller
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