FWIW, the German wiki page for railway=halt has a section that acknowledges that the German definition and international usage differ: "Outside the German-speaking world, railway=halt is defined as an unimportation railway station that only has the most basic equipment and isn't staffed (in Germany this would correspond to railway station categories 6 to 7)." https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Tag:railway%3Dhalt#Internationale_Definition
Harald. On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:23 PM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > According to the wiki page, railway=halt is mainly used for "A small > station, may not have a platform, trains may only stop on request." > The presence of points/switches is only significant in Germany. > > I would recommend reverting to railway=station for any which have > platforms and are regularly scheduled places for the train to stop. > > -Joseph Eisenberg > > On 1/8/20, Clay Smalley <claysmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Over the last few months, I've been doing some systematic improvements to > > the passenger railway network across North America. Much of this has been > > filling out public_transport=stop_area relations for every railway > station, > > including stop positions and platforms, as well as verifying the geometry > > of the underlying railways and classifying them (usage=*, service=*). My > > goal here is to prepare the map such that route relations can be more > > meaningful and accurately describe which track each train uses. > > > > In the course of doing this, I got a tap on the shoulder [1] and found > out > > I was using a definition of railway=halt that may not match up with what > > people were expecting. As far as I know now, railway=station was > originally > > intended for stations where trains are always scheduled to stop, and > > railway=halt for flag stops (aka request stops). In the German OSM > > community, there was a decision made for railway=halt to be used on > > stations that are missing switches, which means trains cannot switch > > tracks, terminate or reverse direction there—a distinction more relevant > to > > railway operations and scheduling. Naturally, there are quite a lot more > of > > these than flag stops. > > > > I'm in a predicament here. So far, I've mapped all Amtrak stations and > > various commuter rail stations across the Northeast according to the > > no-switches definition of halt. I'm happy to revert these back to > stations > > (wherever they aren't flag stops), though I'd like to hear others' > thoughts > > before going through with that. > > > > -Clay > > > > [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/77959450 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! Key-ID: 0x34cb93972f186565
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