[Talk-GB] Standardize railway platforms names & refs

[Tom Crocker]

I'm not sure if you're aware but osmand can already render ref (at least
the default public transport style does). If there's only a ref, that
renders, e.g. '1'. If there's a name and ref both render, e.g. '1 (1)'. If
there's a ref for the platform and a name for the stop area they render,
e.g. 'Shipley (1)'. If there's a name for both stop area and platform only
the name of the platform renders (and ref), e.g. '1 (1)' in Paddington.

I appreciate wanting to get platform numbers rendering on carto (and
others) but it doesn't seem great to mess up the rendering on osmand --
even if you don't like their style they've obviously thought about it. We
could ask osmand to deduplicate ref and name (which would probably be a
good idea in other areas too) but that's asking them to do the legwork to
compensate for others.

More generally I agree with reducing what is stored to remove station name
and 'Platform'.

Hope that helps

Tom
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