[Tagging] Transportation center that serves both buses and trains?

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 24 21:14:59 BST 2011


On 4/24/2011 4:12 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
> On 4/24/11 4:06 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>> On 4/24/2011 3:32 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>>> On 04/21/2011 08:15 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>>>> Using both railway=station and amenity=bus_station gives two labels in
>>>> Mapnik. I reported this as a bug but apparently it's not fixable:
>>>> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/3478 What should be done?
>>>
>>> I would continue to tag the locations of the bus station and the train
>>> station separately, and not tag incorrectly for the renderer. Just
>>> because a particular renderer gets it wrong doesn't mean that more
>>> detail is bad.
>>
>> The problem is when you have a combined station that serves both.
> i'd still put both tags on the single node or polygon. it's still a
> rendering issue, whether or not it's easy to fix in mapnik.

I agree, but why was it closed as "won't fix"? Shouldn't it be kept open 
until someone can fix it?



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