[Talk-transit] Close stations having the same name

[Janko Mihelić]

2013/12/19 Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>

>
> What about search and routing engines returning the expected result for
> exact sign of the name of the local station? As a traveller it’s annoying
> to be told to go to x station, only to get there and find it’s the
> underground or some other variant that you are actually after and could
> have got there more directly.
>

A bad router will tell you "go to station <nameOfStation>". A good router
will tell you "go to <train/bus/tram/underground> station <nameOfStation>".
It's very easy to do that. And it's much nicer than some name a mapper has
made up.
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