tl;dr: Please tag your local station(s) with platforms=n where n<>2
I had a conversation with Andy Allan, ooh, ages ago (it was probably at WhereCampGB in Notts) about his lovely transport layer (http://osm.org/go/euup98?layers=T) and mentioned it would be great to see station names at lower zooms than it currently renders.
While not disagreeing, Andy pointed out that this was currently very difficult to get right, because station density varies so greatly across the country. In London, they're barely a mile apart, whereas in the sticks you get one every 50 miles. There was no obvious way of ensuring that the "right" stations get rendered in high-density areas while showing all stations in rural areas.
At some point post-conversation that one way of filtering the stations would be based on the number of platforms, since this roughly corresponds to "importance" (yuck) in London, at least. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.
Andy hasn't *promised* to do anything with this information, but put it this way: If it's there, he might. If it's not, he can't.
I've already added platforms=* to the preset for a station in Potlatch 2, so it's not even that tricky. Go on. Please.
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