[Tagging] Railway=station + area=yes questions:

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2016-10-04 12:32 GMT+02:00 Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>:

> This would conflict with the use of railway=station as an area ...
> The same tag could be used for all 'stations' (train, bus etc)???
>


the railway=station tag is for train and lightrail and subway stations. It
is not for bus terminals / stations. You can use the tag station=* to say
for which kind of railway service the station is.


So mapping the station area with the tag 'public_transport=station' would
> make sense. And make it consistent. However OSM is full of
> inconsistencies!!
>


there's a definition for this tag in the wiki:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:public_transport%3Dstation

Cheers,
Martin
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