[openrailwaymap] [Talk-transit] Tag railway=station on ways and Wiki

[Joachim]

I find the restriction of railway=station/halt to a node overly simplistic.
This decision should not be over a "convenient meeting point" or
"hand-tuned centroid". It should be about what's on the ground. A node is
an abstraction of reality and I don't think we should stop here. Every
station occupies some area and I would happily apply the rules of
public_transport=station to railway=station: map the area which is of
interest to passengers.



2016-05-19 8:40 GMT+02:00 Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com>:

> The one point approach works for small stations with a single entrance,
> but is a little misleading for large station complexes with multiple entry
> points. We have quite a few of these in India, where both sides are equally
> important like the New Delhi station:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/28.64233/77.22188
>
> In such cases its fair to add the marker in the centroid of the area, and
> not on any particular side. The station building would then help the user
> decide which entry is most convenient.
>
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Nounours77 <kuessemondtaeglich at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> 100% agree with Nzara.
>> Important to have ONE point for station, and the mapper can better decide
>> where this is then an algorithm.
>>
>> nounours
>>
>> > Am 19.05.2016 um 07:28 schrieb Nzara <nzaraosm at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > Hello Mauro,
>> >
>> > concerning your questions
>> >
>> >> Other question that came up was "why is it so important for that node
>> >> to be unconnected with the railway track?"
>> >>
>> >
>> >> Can someone help me to know exactly why it's better tagging a
>> >> "railway=station" with a node only?
>> >
>> > I prefer the passengers view of a station or halt. If we will meet "at
>> the station" where are you expecting to find me? This is the position, I
>> usualy use for placing the railway=station node, definitly not on a track.
>> The track carries nodes like public_transport=stop_position. Putting
>> 'station' on a building or even a larger area leaves it to the renderer or
>> any other data consumer to guess the center of the station from passenges
>> view.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Nzara
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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