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Across those examples of stations, we see that there is no consistency regarding platform names - half have them as the station name, and the others as either Platform $, or just $. </div>
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I will split the platforms into 2 parts as that seems to be the preferred option, and leave the names as Platform $.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Sebastian S. <mapping@consebt.de><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 21 March 2019 22:30<br>
<b>To:</b> talk-au@openstreetmap.org; Thomas Manson; talk-au@openstreetmap.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [talk-au] Platform names</font>
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<div dir="ltr">If you believe Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_railway_station%2C_Sydney">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_railway_station%2C_Sydney</a><br>
The stations name is 'Central railway station' but it goes by many colloquial names.<br>
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I don't like the way the platforms are named currently. "Platform 8+9 (8;9)" is surely not the name on the signboards. I am in favour of splitting the platforms to have each number just called "Platform $". Maybe you can also indicated on which side 8 and 9
is in relation to a path which you would walk into the platform.<br>
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Maybe name:left=Platform 8 makes sense?<br>
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Another question I have is how would you route a blind person to and onto the platform when there is no way?<br>
What about segment indicators. I have not been to central station but I assume for long trains there are segment indicators along the platform for passengers to find they carriages quicker. Are you planning to mapping these?<br>
Have you looked at other train station in OSM?<br>
I suggest to have a look at <br>
Hamburg <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.552778&mlon=10.006389&zoom=15#map=18/53.55274/10.00677">
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.552778&mlon=10.006389&zoom=15#map=18/53.55274/10.00677</a><br>
Or Cologne <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/50.94319/6.95853">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/50.94319/6.95853</a><br>
Or Paris Gare du Nord <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/48.88156/2.35623">
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/48.88156/2.35623</a><br>
Or London Kings Cross <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.53194/-0.12326">
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.53194/-0.12326</a><br>
Regards Sebastian<br>
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<div class="x_gmail_quote">On 21 March 2019 11:26:39 am AEDT, Thomas Manson <thomas.manson@outlook.com> wrote:
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Looking at Central Station, Sydney, the platform names are things like 'Platform 4+5'. (<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6015392" id="LPNoLP265718">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6015392</a>)</div>
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>From my reading of <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Apublic_transport%3Dplatform" id="LPNoLP362716">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Apublic_transport%3Dplatform</a>, this should be </div>
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the name of the station , so in this case that would be either Central or Central Station, with the platform numbers as the ref tag (which is already populated).</div>
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1) First of all, is my understanding correct? It should be the station name.</div>
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2) Secondly, should the name be Central or Central Station (assuming 1 is correct)?</div>
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