[Tagging] railway=station areas

Dave F davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com
Sat Oct 17 13:09:26 UTC 2020


On 17/10/2020 10:00, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
>
>> On 15. Oct 2020, at 16:40, Dave F via Tagging 
>> <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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."
>
>
> I am perfectly fine with this definition, it was you who chose to 
> ignore the “where goods are loaded and unloaded” part.

The diagram's previous incarnations made no mention of this part of the 
definition.

> My interpretation for railway=station is: the train station (all of 
> it). I am neither a train spotter nor a buffer kisser (not sure this 
> term exists in English), but it seems clear that the tag implies the 
> whole railway station, regardless of its application on a node or an area.

Which doesn't include signals/points way down the track.

DaveF
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