[OSM-talk] Subway station vs. subway entrance

[Lester Caine]

Guenther Meyer wrote:
> Am Sonntag 18 Februar 2007 04:37 schrieb Iván Sánchez Ortega:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When mapping the subway network of a major city... should we tag just one
>> node per subway station, or should we tag every subway entrance[1]??
>>
> I would prefer to have only one icon per station, placed in the middle.
> This should be sufficient, because when you are near this point one can 
> usually see the entrances.
> drawing every single entrance would clutter up things.

You obviously don't have to deal with the underground complexes that are 
modern underground/subway stations :(

I can think of several London stations that have long underground routes 
between stations and from convenient ground level entrances to the 
different platform complexes.
While I was in Prague I also had trouble finding the 'stations' since 
they were not necessarily accessed from a single entrance? The bottom of 
Wencesslas Square was quite complex and you had to work out where you 
were when you reached ground level.

At some point, a set of ways for the various routes would be nice, and a 
set of ways for the underground complexes that make up a station would 
be nice - when we have ground penetratingly radar linked to the GPS :)

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