[Tagging] rail routes and stations (rail question 1)

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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On 12. May 2017, at 07:52, John Willis <johnw at mac.com> wrote:

>> I would use an area for the station
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> Unless something has changed in the last year or so, this is not possible because no good tag for it exists (and it breaks -carto) 



it is defined for areas in the wiki and according to taginfo more than 10% of all stations are mapped as areas. The tag is railway=station.

If there are problems with a particular rendering style you should file a ticket with them. Don't tag for the renderer. Something as big as a train station clearly is better represented by a polygon than by a node.

Cheers,
Martin