[Talk-transit] Tagging of railway station

[Janko Mihelić]

I like the area approach. If you were on a platform, or in the station
building, or on the tracks, each time you are in the railway station (or is
it "on the station" when you are outside, and "in the station" when you are
in the building?).

So if there is an app that tells you where you are at the moment, area
would help the app be more precise. If there was a public transport routing
app, it could determine which station you are on, and immediately show you
departure and arrival  times.

Janko


2013/12/18 Copro Grammes <coprogrammes at yahoo.fr>

> Thank you for your answers.
>
> I was also inclined to add railway=station tag to a node rather than to an
> area. But some French mappers advocate for the 'area' solution, contrary to
> the former version of the wiki, and I've begun to hesitate between both the
> approaches.
> So I was hoping this debate could be settled, but currently this is
> clearly not the case... Doesn't this matter interest anybody else ? Or
> doesn't anybody else have an opinion about this question ?
>
>
> >This problem is not know (see place=*). We even already have an
> solution: role "label".
> The role "label" could be interesting, but how can we use it ?
> Did you mean we could create a label relation [1] ? Or did you mean we
> should add a node with the role "label" to the stop_area relation which
> would be tagged railway=station (but the stop_area could also contain a bus
> station, a subway station, etc.) ?
>
> >For new created objects I only use the new scheme but I do not delete
> the older tags if already tagged but only add the new ones.
> So I think it means you add the "public_transport=station" tag to the
> same node/area which was already tagged "railway=station" (as Roland
> did), doesn'it ?
>
> Cheers,
> Zigeuner
>
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relations/Proposed/Label
>
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