[Talk-GB] Stations and platforms=*

[Tom Chance]

On 28 June 2012 11:15, Jonathan Bennett <openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk>wrote:

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


While we're on this subject... I am, after all these years, still a bit
confused about the best way to tag a train station where we have multiple
lines and a building. I would like to add the platforms=n data to the
correct object, but I'm not sure which that is.

In my most frequently used local example, Peckham Rye, we still have a
floating node with railway=station in the middle of an area for the
building, three railway lines passing through the building, and three
platform ways. It looks OK, but I suspect it's not quite right.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.469731&lon=-0.069646&zoom=18&layers=T

There are two pages on the wiki, each giving slightly different advice,
each containing confused, ambiguous and conflicting suggestions:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railway_stations
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dstation

Confusion seems to arise from different solutions trying to satisfy
different aims, as usual, such as tagging for the renderer, for the routing
engine, and for the poor mapper who doesn't want to get tangled in an
insanely complicated set of tags just to mark their local train station.

If there's a better approach I should adopt, I'd be grateful for a clear
explanation! Otherwise I will industriously add platforms=n tags to
whatever object happens to have the railway=station tag for now.

Tom

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