Trams and street-running light rail should have railway=tram_stop. Put in a sub-tag if you want to distinguish different types.
If your light-rail system runs onto heavy rail (eg famously in Karlsruhe), and shares stations with heavy rail passenger services, then use railway=station on the clearly heavy rail sections. I'd avoid using railway=light_rail in marginal cases - I think some people use it for S-bahn services (loco-hauled double-deck carriages; definitely not lightweight!), and the tagging isn't entirely helpful Richard On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: >> A light rail stop, would that be a railway=tram_stop or a railway=station? > > Sounds like a third option is required. Here (Melbourne, Australia) > tram stops vary from just a sign on a telephone pole to "super stops" > (raised platforms, safety barriers and ticket machines) to former > train stations that now only serve light rails. The first are clearly > "railway=tram_stop", the last are really "railway=station" (but it > would be misleading to render them exactly the same as a real train > station), but the super stops are really something else, some subclass > of tram_stop maybe. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
