[talk-au] Platform names

Sebastian S. mapping at consebt.de
Thu Mar 21 08:51:42 UTC 2019


Yes there is a tag for short name. Don't know at the moment but is listed in the wiki under the names site.
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On 21 March 2019 6:40:25 pm AEDT, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 21/03/19 15:42, Andrew Davidson wrote:
>> On 21/3/19 11:26, Thomas Manson wrote:
>>> 1) First of all, is my understanding correct? It should be the 
>>> station name.
>>
>> Depends on which version you'd like to believe. The original proposal
>
>> for public_transport=platform 
>> (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?oldid=625726#Platform)
>said:
>>
>> "The name by which the platform is known."
>>
>> someone has later decided to change this. Which one is "correct"?
>When 
>> using PTv2 I stick to just the original proposal description as the 
>> various "translations" has made it harder and harder to understand
>(in 
>> other words the platform name is fine).
>>
>> However, I'd split them into single platforms, there's no need to 
>> combine them.
>
>+ 1
>Split the platforms if possible/convenient and you have time.
>The train arrives at/departs from platform 4 ... not platform 4+5.
>
>Central or 'Central Station' refers to the whole thing. When you are 
>there you talk of 'platform 5' not 'Central Station Platform 5' .. so 
>I'd stick with just the platform as the name - locally that is what is 
>used.
>Same with other stations.
>
>
>>
>>> 2) Secondly, should the name be Central or Central Station (assuming
>
>>> 1 is correct)?
>>
>> Central is the short name, Central Station is the full name. 
>
>Not certain if OSM has short_name .. if not I'd use local_name.
>
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