Thanks, all. This pretty much confirms what I expected. I'll go ahead and bring them back to railway=station.
-Clay On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:34 AM Harald Kliems <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 < > [email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > > > -- > Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! > Key-ID: 0x34cb93972f186565 >
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