[Talk-ca] Vancouver rapid transit stations - "Station" in name?

john whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 5 19:49:45 UTC 2017


Sounds sensible to me.  No doubt there will be other opinions.

Cheerio John

On 5 Nov 2017 1:16 pm, "Jarek PiĆ³rkowski" <jarek at piorkowski.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> First post here, sorry if I mess anything up!
>
> A few months back I noticed that station names for Vancouver Skytrain
> rapid transit system (all lines) are inconsistent: 32 of them have
> "Station" in their name, but 23 don't, with little apparent pattern by
> line or location.
>
> Most of all I would like to make it consistent one way or the other -
> I hope that's not controversial. Which way is then the question.
>
> I made a note about this in downtown Vancouver near Granville station,
> but didn't get much response:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/858075
>
> On the ground, signs on station entrances do include "Station",
> examples (1) (2) below. Signs at platforms do not include "Station",
> example (3). Other TransLink resources are not particularly
> consistent: as one example, network maps like (4) do not include
> "Station" but local station area maps like (5) do.
>
> Are there conventions on what format should be used - in Canada or in
> general in OSM? I couldn't really find anything concrete.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names seems inconclusive on whether
> it should include "Station". I saw a question (6) on help.osm.org
> which was specific to Hong Kong and in the end hinged more on existing
> consistency.
>
> Analogies from other cities: Toronto and Montreal have no "Station" in
> subway/metro station names. Calgary has no "Station" in its LRT names
> but Edmonton does. Seattle and Portland also have no "Station".
> Possibly the closest analogy, though far away in London, England, see
> (7) for example with photos: signs outside all tube stations have
> format "Goodge Street Station" / "South Kensington Station"; signs at
> platforms say "Goodge Street" / "South Kensington"; OSM tags
> name=Goodge Street / name=South Kensington.
>
> Personally I would prefer no "Station", so making the names like
> "Burrard", "Vancouver City Centre", "Nanaimo", "Inlet Centre". Does
> anyone or any resource disagree?
>
> Cheers,
> --Jarek
>
> (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vancouver_-_Burrard_
> Station_entrance_01.jpg
> (2) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coquitlam_Central_
> Station_Exterior.jpg
> (3) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coquitlam_Central_
> station_(SkyTrain).jpg
> (4) http://infomaps.translink.ca/System_Maps/skytrain_bline_seabus_map.pdf
> (5) https://www.translink.ca/en/Schedules-and-Maps/SkyTrain/
> SkyTrain-Station-and-Elevator-Maps.aspx
> (6) https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/52852/railway-
> stationmetro-station-naming
> (7) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodge_Street_tube_station
>
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