[Talk-transit] Tag railway=station on ways and Wiki

Nzara nzaraosm at gmail.com
Thu May 19 05:28:23 UTC 2016


Hello Mauro,

concerning your questions

> Other question that came up was "why is it so important for that node
> to be unconnected with the railway track?"
>

> Can someone help me to know exactly why it's better tagging a
> "railway=station" with a node only?

I prefer the passengers view of a station or halt. If we will meet "at 
the station" where are you expecting to find me? This is the position, I 
usualy use for placing the railway=station node, definitly not on a 
track. The track carries nodes like public_transport=stop_position. 
Putting 'station' on a building or even a larger area leaves it to the 
renderer or any other data consumer to guess the center of the station 
from passenges view.

Cheers
Nzara







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