[Talk-GB] Stations and platforms=*

[Jonathan Bennett]

tl;dr: Please tag your local station(s) with platforms=n where n<>2

I had a conversation with Andy Allan, ooh, ages ago (it was probably at 
WhereCampGB in Notts) about his lovely transport layer 
(http://osm.org/go/euup98?layers=T) and mentioned it would be great to 
see station names at lower zooms than it currently renders.

While not disagreeing, Andy pointed out that this was currently very 
difficult to get right, because station density varies so greatly across 
the country. In London, they're barely a mile apart, whereas in the 
sticks you get one every 50 miles. There was no obvious way of ensuring 
that the "right" stations get rendered in high-density areas while 
showing all stations in rural areas.

At some point post-conversation that one way of filtering the stations 
would be based on the number of platforms, since this roughly 
corresponds to "importance" (yuck) in London, at least. It's not 
perfect, but it's better than nothing.

Andy hasn't *promised* to do anything with this information, but put it 
this way: If it's there, he might. If it's not, he can't.

I've already added platforms=* to the preset for a station in Potlatch 
2, so it's not even that tricky. Go on. Please.

J.