[OSM-talk] British stations in Wikipedia vs. OSM (was: railway=subway_entrance approved!)

[Keith Sharp]

On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 15:22 +0000, Bruce Cowan wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:10 +0000, Edward Betts wrote:
> > Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
> > > Incidentially there are also articles for mainline railway stations
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manningtree_railway_station
> > 
> > I wrote some code to compare the British stations in Wikipedia with the ones
> > in OSM. Right now we have 60.8% coverage. There are a few disused stations
> > incorrectly included in the Wikipedia data. Sometimes the names in Wikipedia
> > and OSM don't match.
> > 
> > Take a look at http://edwardbetts.com/osm/stations.html
> > 
> > Green means the station is OSM, red means it isn't.
> > 
> 
> A lot of the ones in Argyll and Bute are closed these days. I think all
> the red ones there are shut now.
> 
> Charing Cross (Glasgow) is evidentally in OSM as just Charing Cross,
> same with High Street.
> 
> Glasgow's railway OSM coverage is very high in fact. [1]
> 
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:SPT_completion.png

Most of the red stations listed for Glasgow do not exist anymore, off
the top of my head the following are long gone:

Bellahouston
Botanic Gardens
Crow Road
Kelvinside
Maryhill Central
Merkland Street Subway
Partick Central
Partick West
Partickhill
Whiteinch Victoria Park

I suspect most of the other red stations fall into the same category.

Glasgow Bridge Street is in OSM as Bridge Street, it's now an
underground only station.

As Bruce states - the railways in Glasgow are almost complete.

Keith.