[OSM-talk] Train station names: "Place Station" ou just "Place" ?

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Fri Sep 18 09:02:54 BST 2009


Pieren <pieren3 <at> gmail.com> writes:


>What is the actual convention about railway stations names ?

>do we have to
>write the word "Station" in the name itself or not ? Is it not implied
>by the tag railway=station or building=train_station ?

Following the general rule that the name shouldn't duplicate information from
other tags, I would suggest omitting it, just as 'Holy Trinity' is usually better
than 'Holy Trinity Church'.

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Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>





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