[Talk-GB] Standardize railway platforms names & refs

[Michael Booth]

Forgot I had commented on that osm-carto issue three years ago. It's a 
no-brainer that the ref should be rendered instead of the name, how do 
we get someone to sort it?

Do you plan on changing all the platform lines to areas or should the 
ref be rendered on lines as well?

As for multiple numbers, are these even necessary when you can draw 
multiple platforms areas and add a ref for each one? See Euston or 
Waverley for examples, where there are separate areas for each side of 
island platforms or a long platform split in half.

On 27/08/2022 21:41, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
> First off, I don't think railway platforms have genuine 'names', such 
> as 'The Casey Jones memorial platform', but the major renderers render 
> that tag atm, so it's the one I plan to change. If you know of any 
> with genuine names, please let me know.
>
> There is a discussion on OSM-Carto's github to change the rendering 
> from name to ref, but, as usual, the speed of the discussion is glacial.
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3271
>
> Ideally I think the only label which should be rendered is the 
> reference number/letter, however I'm aware there are some caveats to 
> that, which is why I'm posting here.
>
> Amendments I'm planning to make:
> Remove 'Platform' from those named 'Platform X'. In OSM we don't 
> explicitly self describe objects.
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Names_are_not_for_descriptions
>
> Remove station names. They're already rendered in the railway=station 
> object.
> Remove track/line names.
> Remove name's of line operators
> Tidy up any multiple numbers so they're all in the format of '1;2' etc.
> Copy all that are just numbers/letter to 'ref' tags if they don't 
> already exist.
>
> The longest name is "Great Portland Street - Circle, Metropolitan, 
> Hammersmith & City Line - Eastbound - Platform 1" which is just 
> ridiculous, IMO.
>
> However it leads on to some questions:
> Are all London underground platforms signed as 'Eastbound, Northbound' 
> etc?
> Do Manchester trams have ref numbers. Currently they're all tagged 
> with the station name only?
>
> I plan of performing this in a few steps using various Overpass 
> routines to filter out each configuration of name. I'll probably start 
> with 'Platform X' format as it's the lowest hanging fruit.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-GB mailing list
> Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb