[OSM-talk] railway=subway_entrance approved!

[Peter Miller]

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> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:05:48 +0100
> From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping at web.de>
> Subject: [OSM-talk] railway=subway_entrance approved!
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> Hi List!
> 
> Got another one ...
> 
> The voting for railway=subway_entrance was open since mid September and
> was approved 11 times with no disapprovals.
> 
> I've moved the page
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Subway_entrance
> from proposal to approved and added it to the map features page.
> 
> 
> I've also tried to collect on that page some reasonable tags mentioned
> in the comments and the description of an icon proposal (taken from the
> proposed features page).
> 

And how about linking up subway entrances with this Flickr group with 663
photos of underground station entrances for London!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/lutse/

Use this A-Z index to find the one you want!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/lutse/discuss/72157600045222133/


While we are on the subject, there are Wikipedia articles for each
underground station, for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgware_tube_station

And for the individual lines, for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_line

Here is the main London Underground article: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_underground


Incidentially there are also articles for mainline railway stations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manningtree_railway_station

For named lines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Suffolk_Line

And for railway companies, for example One Railway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Railway


Why and I saying all this? Because I think it will be good to strengthen the
links between OSM and Wikipedia and other resources such as Flickr. I don't
think the wikipedia links aren't used much yet, but there is huge potential.

I am adding 'wikipedia' tags to things in my area. Not sure about a Flick
tag, is there one? I know we have an openstreetmap tag for Flickr, but
possibly there isn't one for the other way round.

While I am on the subject I am also playing with Sketchup and think we need
a sketchup tag to attach buildings to the map which would be fun. Do we have
one?



Regards,



Peter

> Regards, ULFL
> 
>