I agree Cheers Bob --- On Tue, 19/4/11, Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com> Subject: [Talk-GB] Things that aren't stations tagged railway=station To: "Talk-GB" <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> Date: Tuesday, 19 April, 2011, 8:21 Hi All, In making my recent transport map[1] I've found there's a (relatively) large number of nodes in the UK tagged railway=station, when they aren't stations (and often aren't any railways there, either). I'm proposing that we don't tag former, disused or fictional stations in a way that confuses mainstream users of OSM, in the same way we don't tag proposed motorways as highway=motorway. I realise that there are additional tags to try to indicate that they don't exist (such as disused=yes) but I don't think this is a particularly useful approach, given the near infinite numbers of extra tags that could be thought up for fictional, planned, was-planned-not-built-not-planned-any-more etc stations. Even the wiki page for disused=yes suggests it's a bad idea[2], and that some other "backwards-compatible" approach would be better. We have a backwards-compatible approach for the disused and abandoned railway lines already. Would there be objections to changing the situation with UK railway stations to bring it into line with highways/railway lines, e.g. railway=disused, disused=station , or e.g. railway=abandoned, abandoned=station? It's such a niche interest (well, seemingly much less niche in the UK than elsewhere :-) ) that I don't think it helps to tag things in their current scheme. I don't think this is particularly controversial (my suggestions mirror the approach for both highways and railway lines already), I've discussed it already with a handful of people who have used the old approach, but I thought it best to air it here too. Cheers, Andy [1] http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2011/04/11/transport-map/ [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:disused _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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