Here the platforms for buses near to a railway station have names like: Gent Sint-Pietersstation Perron 3 Mechelen Nekkerspoel Perron 1 Wavre Quai 5
(Perron/Quai means platform in Dutch/French) Whereas the name of the railway station itself would be: Gent Sint-Pieters Mechelen Nekkerspoel I think it's better to indicate they are related by a hierarchy of stop_area relations. Jo 2013/12/18 Copro Grammes <[email protected]> > Hi, > > Close to a main railway station, there are often other stations > (underground, bus, tram, etc.) which have the same name (e.g. "Somewhere > Station"). > > I wonder what is the best value for the key 'name' of these stations? > > There are examples where the transport type is added in the name: e.g. > "Gare de Lyon (métro 14)" in Paris [1], or "Hauptbahnhof (U-Bahn)" in > Frankfurt [2]. > > Don't you think it is better to tag all these stations with their real > name ("Somewhere Station")? It isn't ambiguous since other tags than name > allow to distinguish these stations [3]. And it gives to users/applications > the real name, not a name "for renderer". > > Cheers, > Zigeuner > > [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/export#map=18/48.84385/2.37467 > [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/export#map=18/50.10769/8.66386 > [3] E.g. "Gare de l'Est" railway and underground stations can be > distinguish by some renderers even though they are both tagged > railway=station and name=Gare de l'Est: > http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=16&lat=48.87451&lon=2.359&layers=B0000000FFFFFF > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit > >
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