[OSM-talk] Subway station vs. subway entrance

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Sunday 18 February 2007 21:50, Guenther Meyer wrote:
> Am Sonntag 18 Februar 2007 13:43 schrieb Lester Caine:
> > You obviously don't have to deal with the underground complexes that are
> > modern underground/subway stations :(
>
> oh yes, I have to!
>
> but the problem is: what's the sense of a plan, if you don't know where you
> are. at least here in munich are plans hanging around in every station with
> a "you are here"-pin. if you have such a plan in your device or as a
> printed map, it won't be of any use.
>
> but if someone likes to tag this stuff, please go on. I won't.
> but then such information should be on a separate layer.

You shouldn't think of layers. Just given different views for different 
purposes. If you're drawing a car-map none of the Underground stuff is really 
relevant. If you're drawing a pedestrian map with zoomlevel above 5000 you 
might add one underground sign. But if you have a pedestrian map with a 
zoom-level below 1000 you might be pleased to see that this or that entry to 
the underground station is hidden inside a shopping entry and almost cannot 
be seen from outside. So I think it would be a really good idea to tag 
everything with propper tags and let the rendering software only show those 
tags which are relevant for this type of map. 

-- 
Jörg (Germany, Munich)

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