<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div><br>On May 12, 2017, at 8:03 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I would use an area for the station</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Unless something has changed in the last year or so, this is not possible because no good tag for it exists (and it breaks -carto) <br><br><div>My first trouble as a new mapper in 2013 was about this, and I brought it up again in 2015. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1457">https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1457</a></div><div><br></div><div>AFAIK The railway=station isn't treated as a landuse, so when placed on an area it acts as building=yes. </div><div><br></div><div>You could use landuse=railway to denote the land, but that would be a landuse that doesn't differentiate between "some track" and "here is a station". </div><div><br></div><div>Using railway=station as a landuse my be possible if we put building=no, but I assume that because -carton renderings assume it is a building, so will other data consumers and ignore the building=no tag. </div><div><br></div><div>As with _so many_ non-business tags, there is no corresponding catch-all landuse they can go into (imo) to properly map the extent of their landuse, such a as fire stations, libraries, police stations, train stations, etc. mapping one place as an amenity= , another as a landuse=, another as a man_made=, and others with no area polygon - when _all_are just buildings sitting on a square of land is really odd, especially to a new mapper. iD hides some of this inconsistency, but it is still really bad. </div><div><br></div><div>When there are more complex situations or micromapping, landuse=* and other area-based non-building tags is the basis for all of my mapping. </div><div><br></div><div>Mapping a giant river needs waterway=river and =riverbank. Mapping a station needs building=station and landuse=public_transport or similar. </div><div><br></div><div>Javbw </div></body></html>