[Talk-GB] Bulk railway station changes

[AJ Ashton]

Thanks for the explanations of the complicated 'network' situation.

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> It may lend itself to an ncn/rcn/lcn or nwn/rwn/lwn solution, ...

> I'm tempted to suggest a generic tag for any country's national railway system
> ("mainline=yes|no" or somesuch), and then you could render based on this tag
> and the UK polygon. ...

Either of these seem like good generic approaches. I'm sure there are
numerous complications and caveats to discuss, but a relatively
simple, global system is likely to have advantages for many
applications of the data.

> ... or tagging station operators (e.g.
> "operator=First Great Western") and rendering based on a set of those.

Based on everyone's comments I'm leaning toward this as an alternative
approach to start with. It sounds like data/tags are less ambiguous
and already well-used (though not without oddities to be careful of).
On the icon rendering side it's slightly more complicated, but totally
manageable within our current rendering setup. The token-replacement
feature for image paths in in Mapnik 2 is really fantastic.

SomeoneElse wrote:
> Sorry, but who's "we" here? ...

"We" is MapBox, or at least the few MapBox employees who made these
edits. We're primarily based in the US, but also have some folks in
South America and Europe.

-- 
AJ Ashton