[Talk-GB] Standardize railway platforms names & refs

[Andrew Hain]

One answer for that would be to only have ref and to omit name as tagging for the renderer.

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Andrew
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From: Tom Crocker <tomcrockermail at gmail.com>
Sent: 29 August 2022 09:07
To: Dave F <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com>
Cc: Talk-GB at openstreetmap.org <talk-GB at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Standardize railway platforms names & refs

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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