[Tagging] railway=station areas

[Dave F]

On 15/10/2020 11:01, OSM wrote:
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> Am 10.10.2020 um 00:35 schrieb Dave F via Tagging:
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>> I edited a copy of the diagram (A-simple-station.svg) of a station 
>> layout, primarily to remove any references to PTv2 tags, a completely 
>> independent, duplicating tagging schema, irrelevant to anything to do 
>> with the railway=station tag.
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> That is the main problem I think:
> You think, that railway=* and PTv2 tags are duplicating tagging schemas.

They are. One of the creators on the Transit forum stated the intention 
was for PTy2 to supersede railway=* tags.

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> But:
> railway=* are _railway_ related tags - they are for infrastructure.

Which wiki pages claim that?

> PTv2 tags are _public_transport_ tags - they are for the public 
> transport use cases.

Tell that to the contributors who are adding PTv2 to tourist stations (I 
think it might be to do with another cock-up in iD editor)

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> And yes - these both are truly different.

Which negates any desire to change the meaning of railway=station from 
"places where customers can access railway services or where goods are 
loaded and unloaded."

DaveF
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