<div dir="auto">Sounds sensible to me.  No doubt there will be other opinions.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 Nov 2017 1:16 pm, "Jarek Piórkowski" <<a href="mailto:jarek@piorkowski.ca">jarek@piorkowski.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
First post here, sorry if I mess anything up!<br>
<br>
A few months back I noticed that station names for Vancouver Skytrain<br>
rapid transit system (all lines) are inconsistent: 32 of them have<br>
"Station" in their name, but 23 don't, with little apparent pattern by<br>
line or location.<br>
<br>
Most of all I would like to make it consistent one way or the other -<br>
I hope that's not controversial. Which way is then the question.<br>
<br>
I made a note about this in downtown Vancouver near Granville station,<br>
but didn't get much response:<br>
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/858075" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>note/858075</a><br>
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On the ground, signs on station entrances do include "Station",<br>
examples (1) (2) below. Signs at platforms do not include "Station",<br>
example (3). Other TransLink resources are not particularly<br>
consistent: as one example, network maps like (4) do not include<br>
"Station" but local station area maps like (5) do.<br>
<br>
Are there conventions on what format should be used - in Canada or in<br>
general in OSM? I couldn't really find anything concrete.<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>wiki/Names</a> seems inconclusive on whether<br>
it should include "Station". I saw a question (6) on <a href="http://help.osm.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">help.osm.org</a><br>
which was specific to Hong Kong and in the end hinged more on existing<br>
consistency.<br>
<br>
Analogies from other cities: Toronto and Montreal have no "Station" in<br>
subway/metro station names. Calgary has no "Station" in its LRT names<br>
but Edmonton does. Seattle and Portland also have no "Station".<br>
Possibly the closest analogy, though far away in London, England, see<br>
(7) for example with photos: signs outside all tube stations have<br>
format "Goodge Street Station" / "South Kensington Station"; signs at<br>
platforms say "Goodge Street" / "South Kensington"; OSM tags<br>
name=Goodge Street / name=South Kensington.<br>
<br>
Personally I would prefer no "Station", so making the names like<br>
"Burrard", "Vancouver City Centre", "Nanaimo", "Inlet Centre". Does<br>
anyone or any resource disagree?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
--Jarek<br>
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(1) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vancouver_-_Burrard_Station_entrance_01.jpg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>File:Vancouver_-_Burrard_<wbr>Station_entrance_01.jpg</a><br>
(2) <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coquitlam_Central_Station_Exterior.jpg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/<wbr>wiki/File:Coquitlam_Central_<wbr>Station_Exterior.jpg</a><br>
(3) <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coquitlam_Central_station_(SkyTrain).jpg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/<wbr>wiki/File:Coquitlam_Central_<wbr>station_(SkyTrain).jpg</a><br>
(4) <a href="http://infomaps.translink.ca/System_Maps/skytrain_bline_seabus_map.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://infomaps.translink.ca/<wbr>System_Maps/skytrain_bline_<wbr>seabus_map.pdf</a><br>
(5) <a href="https://www.translink.ca/en/Schedules-and-Maps/SkyTrain/SkyTrain-Station-and-Elevator-Maps.aspx" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.translink.ca/en/<wbr>Schedules-and-Maps/SkyTrain/<wbr>SkyTrain-Station-and-Elevator-<wbr>Maps.aspx</a><br>
(6) <a href="https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/52852/railway-stationmetro-station-naming" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://help.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/questions/52852/railway-<wbr>stationmetro-station-naming</a><br>
(7) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodge_Street_tube_station" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Goodge_Street_tube_station</a><br>
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