[Tagging] railway stations as areas / nodes

[Philip Barnes]

There does appear to be a fair bit wrong with that page, it says 'Stations without switches (should be points) where only passenger trains stop are called halts.

A halt should be a station where trains stop on request. The wiki would make most stations into halts, including busy stations, such as Telford, which is ridiculous. 

Phil (trigpoint) 

On Wed May 18 08:34:27 2016 GMT+0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> One year ago, as I just noticed, the wiki page for railway=station was changed significantly, removing the suggestion to use areas and insisting on using only nodes for railway stations:
> 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag%3Arailway%3Dstation&type=revision&diff=1140728&oldid=1115036
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> I don't recall any discussion here about this topic, but I believe that this edit was not reflecting well the actual situation (at least not around here), and should be reverted.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers 
> Martin 
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