[Talk-transit] Close stations having the same name

[Copro Grammes]

Hi,

Close to a main railway station, there are often other stations (underground, bus, tram, etc.) which have the same name (e.g. "Somewhere Station").

I wonder what is the best value for the key 'name' of these stations?

There are examples where the transport type is added in the name: e.g. "Gare de Lyon (métro 14)" in Paris [1], or "Hauptbahnhof (U-Bahn)" in Frankfurt [2].

Don't you think it is better to tag all these stations with their real name ("Somewhere Station")? It isn't ambiguous since other tags than name allow to distinguish these stations [3]. And it gives to users/applications the real name, not a name "for renderer".

Cheers,
Zigeuner


[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/export#map=18/48.84385/2.37467

[2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/export#map=18/50.10769/8.66386
[3] E.g. "Gare de l'Est" railway and underground stations can be distinguish by some renderers even though they are both tagged railway=station and name=Gare de l'Est: http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=16&lat=48.87451&lon=2.359&layers=B0000000FFFFFF
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