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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2017-05-19 17:48 GMT+02:00 Michael Reichert <nakaner at gmx.net>:

> As a railway mapper, I must admit that there is no tag to indicate that
> a station with railway=station is a passenger-only station. The opposite
> is possible to tag, use railway=yard.
>


Looking at the wiki definition, it appears we have defined railway=yard as
the tag for a freight station. This seems rather strange, I would have
preferred to use this tag for railway yards in general, i.e. also for
storing or sorting waggons / coaches / trains / locomotives etc., and have
subtags for the specific function (or already use different tags like
railway=sorting_yard, railway=freight_station, etc.)

Reading more wikipedia, the term "yard" in conjunction of "railway" has
lots of different meanings, specific sub-entities refering only to a
(functional) part of a goods station or other part (e.g. marshalling yard,
flat yard, hump yard, gravity yard,departure yard, car repair yard,
transfer yard, ...)

Maybe it's time for some refactoring?

Cheers,
Martin
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