<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br>I believe the usage of the building should be explicitly defined, so station should be used.<br><br>Most people who disagree are discussing it from the point of view of using the map for the sole purpose of using a train. This is not the case.<br><br>My home town station has the same name as at least two other establishments in the city. The label for each of those needs to be explicit.<br>Imagine the problem for a tourist trying to find the hotel with the same name but turns up at the station!<br><br>Cheers<br>Dave F.<br><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Ed Avis
<eda@waniasset.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk@openstreetmap.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 18 September, 2009 9:02:54<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?<br></font><br>Pieren <pieren3 <at> gmail.com> writes:<br><br><br>>What is the actual convention about railway stations names ?<br><br>>do we have to<br>>write the word "Station" in the name itself or not ? Is it not implied<br>>by the tag railway=station or building=train_station ?<br><br>Following the general rule that the name shouldn't duplicate information from<br>other tags, I would suggest omitting it, just as 'Holy Trinity' is usually better<br>than 'Holy Trinity Church'.<br><br>-- <br>Ed Avis <<a ymailto="mailto:eda@waniasset.com"
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