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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 14.08.2020 um 14:51 schrieb Colin
      Smale:<br>
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      <p>On 2020-08-14 13:55, dktue wrote:</p>
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        <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 14.08.2020 um 13:34 schrieb
          Colin Smale:</div>
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          <p>On 2020-08-14 13:14, dktue wrote:</p>
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              <span style="white-space: nowrap;">I'm definitely open for that! :-)</span></div>
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          <div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family:
            monospace;">OK, two people agree on the strings to use, but
            what are the semantics? What sentence would go in the wiki
            to describe a) when to use the value and b) what the value
            implies once it is in the OSM data?</div>
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          <div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family:
            monospace;">It sounds like it might be something like:</div>
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          <div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family:
            monospace;">base: the end station with the lower altitude</div>
          <div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family:
            monospace;">head: the end station with the higher altitude</div>
          <div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family:
            monospace;">mid: any station, not being a base or a head
            station, irrespective of the altitude</div>
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          <div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family:
            monospace;">note: based purely on altitude, not
            arrival/departure inclination</div>
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        That sounds perfectly reasoneable to me!<br>
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            monospace;">As to which key to use, how about
            aerialway:station={base,mid,head}?</div>
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        I suggested station={base,mid,head} because we're using
        aerial=station and then it seemed natural to go with station=*
        but I'd be definitely happy with aerialway:station=*.<br>
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      <p>I suggested aerialway:station=* precisely to avoid overloading
        station=* (different semantics under different circumstances).</p>
      <p>As a native English speaker by the way I would suggest that
        "top" and "bottom" might be simpler instead of "base" and
        "head". Using easy words means you don't need to explain it to
        people who either don't know the words, or know them in a
        different context.</p>
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    Well then it would be aerialway:station={bottom,mid,top}, right?<br>
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