[Talk-transit] Close stations having the same name

[Jo]

Here the platforms for buses near to a railway station have names like:

Gent Sint-Pietersstation Perron 3
Mechelen Nekkerspoel Perron 1
Wavre Quai 5

(Perron/Quai means platform in Dutch/French)

Whereas the name of the railway station itself would be:

Gent Sint-Pieters
Mechelen Nekkerspoel

I think it's better to indicate they are related by a hierarchy of
stop_area relations.

Jo





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

> 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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