[Tagging] railway stations as areas / nodes

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2016-05-18 10:10 GMT+02:00 Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk>:

> 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.
>


this might be country specific, AFAIK according to the German law, a
station without a switch is not considered a station but a halt (not sure
if we should add this requirement to OSM though, cannot recall that we
discussed this on an international level, so that adding it into the
general wiki definition doesn't seem right).
I agree that even for small facilities a node is rather the preliminary
than the ideal version of mapping. Everything with a spatial extent of
railway infrastructure is likely better mapped as polygon (to allow for
things like A is inside B or A is bigger than C, etc.)

Cheers,
Martin
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/attachments/20160518/9bf8d9c0/attachment.html>