[OSM-talk] Detailed tagging scheme for railways - India

[Rory McCann]

On 22/05/10 23:34, Liz wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2010, Roland Olbricht wrote:
>> - railway=halt is at least in Europe already frequently used with a
>> different  meaning: "station" designates stations where trains can begin
>> or terminate. "halt" means (usually smaller) stations where trains only
>> stop but legally can't begin or end. To make things worse, most mappers
>> map either all stations as "station" or they map all small stations
>> (regardless of their legal status) as "halt". You have a clear definition
>> of the feature (not regularly served), thus I'd strongly encourage you to
>> use a different value for it.
> 
> Ahh, interesting
> Station in Au means it has a platform, and implies an office, a permanent 
> employee and hopefully a toilet as well.

Same in Ireland. There are many places tagged as station, where the
train will go through, but it doesn't start or stop from. There is
pretty much always a building, employees, etc.
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