[Talk-transit] Close stations having the same name

[Janko Mihelić]

Naming them different than they are named on the ground is mapping for the
renderer.
Just add train=yes, bus=yes or tram=yes, and that should be enough. A good
renderer will put a little train/bus/tram icon below the name of the
station.


2013/12/18 Jo <winfixit at gmail.com>

> 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
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> (Perron/Quai means platform in Dutch/French)
>
> Whereas the name of the railway station itself would be:
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> Gent Sint-Pieters
> Mechelen Nekkerspoel
>
> I think it's better to indicate they are related by a hierarchy of
> stop_area relations.
>
> Jo
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> 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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