[talk-au] Platform names

[Thomas Manson]

Across those examples of stations, we see that there is no consistency regarding platform names - half have them as the station name, and the others as either Platform $, or just $.

I will split the platforms into 2 parts as that seems to be the preferred option, and leave the names as Platform $.

Regards,
Thomas
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From: Sebastian S. <mapping at consebt.de>
Sent: 21 March 2019 22:30
To: talk-au at openstreetmap.org; Thomas Manson; talk-au at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Platform names

If you believe Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_railway_station%2C_Sydney
The stations name is 'Central railway station' but it goes by many colloquial names.

I don't like the way the platforms are named currently. "Platform 8+9 (8;9)" is surely not the name on the signboards. I am in favour of splitting the platforms to have each number just called "Platform $". Maybe you can also indicated on which side 8 and 9 is in relation to a path which you would walk into the platform.

Maybe name:left=Platform 8 makes sense?

Another question I have is how would you route a blind person to and onto the platform when there is no way?
What about segment indicators. I have not been to central station but I assume for long trains there are segment indicators along the platform for passengers to find they carriages quicker. Are you planning to mapping these?
Have you looked at other train station in OSM?
I suggest to have a look at
Hamburg https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=53.552778&mlon=10.006389&zoom=15#map=18/53.55274/10.00677
Or Cologne https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/50.94319/6.95853
Or Paris Gare du Nord https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/48.88156/2.35623
Or London Kings Cross https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.53194/-0.12326
Regards Sebastian
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On 21 March 2019 11:26:39 am AEDT, Thomas Manson <thomas.manson at outlook.com> wrote:
Looking at Central Station, Sydney, the platform names are things like 'Platform 4+5'. (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6015392)


>From my reading of https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Apublic_transport%3Dplatform, this should be
the name of the station , so in this case that would be either Central or Central Station, with the platform numbers as the ref tag (which is already populated).

1) First of all, is my understanding correct? It should be the station name.
2) Secondly, should the name be Central or Central Station (assuming 1 is correct)?

Regards,
Thomas
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