Naming them different than they are named on the ground is mapping for the renderer. Just add train=yes, bus=yes or tram=yes, and that should be enough. A good renderer will put a little train/bus/tram icon below the name of the station.
2013/12/18 Jo <[email protected]> > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit > >
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