[Tagging] railway stations as areas / nodes

[Philip Barnes]

On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 13:29 +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 
> 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 spluttered a bit when I read on #talk-gb that and RichardF has since
corrected it to say that rule only applies in German speaking
countries.

Phil (trigpoint)