[Talk-transit] Close stations having the same name

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On 19.12.2013 14:23, Janko Mihelić wrote:
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> 2013/12/19 Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
> <mailto:shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>>
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>     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.
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> 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.

I would also try to use one name and add all the extra information with
other tags.

In the end you will always use a stop-area-relation to group all stops
together.

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