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

[Bjoern Hassler]

+1 to improved tagging for railways and happy to help!
Bjoern

On Sun, 21 May 2017 at 13:11, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 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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