[Talk-GB] Standardize railway platforms names & refs

[Dave F]

Hi

On 29/08/2022 09:07, Tom Crocker wrote:
> 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'.
>

My proposals won't affect any renderer's rules. They'll still be 
rendering the same tags.
My proposals will not be amending any PTv2 objects  (ie stop_areas).

Cheers
DaveF