[Talk-GB] Stations and platforms=*

[David Earl]

Might this be of help, if the info were included with the station. It 
seems to be "official":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_railway_station_categories

David

On 28/06/2012 11:15, Jonathan Bennett wrote:
> 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.
>
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