[Talk-GB] Standardize railway platforms names & refs

[Tom Crocker]

Possibly of interest, Andy Townsend's useful map seems to ignore the name
and render the ref as, for example, 'Platform 1'. My (perhaps wrong)
understanding is that map was forked from carto, so maybe the relevant code
is written and a pull request wouldn't be so difficult. It seemed from the
ticket that was the only stumbling block.

Tom

On Mon, 29 Aug 2022, 09:27 Andrew Hain, <andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

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