[Tagging] railway=station areas

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am Mi., 7. Okt. 2020 um 10:31 Uhr schrieb Andrew Harvey <
andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>:

> In practice many are mapped as the same area, but that's usually only
> because unless you're a train operator it can be hard to actually survey
> where the station starts and ends from the train network point of view.
>


Some people have suggested this would be the area between the first and
last switch (and all dead end rails inside these switches), other
definitions that have been proposed are referring to the signals. I am not
sure there is a significant difference between the two, but it seems this
is something you can roughly estimate also without professional background
information.

It is maybe worth pointing out that railway=station according to the wiki
can be also used for stations without passenger access (goods station).

Cheers
Martin
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